Forest Height Estimation by Means of Pol-InSAR Data Inversion: The Role of the Vertical Wavenumber

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 53, Issue 10, 2015, Pages 5294-5311

  Kugler, Florian ^a   Lee, Seung Kuk ^b   Hajnsek, Irena ^a,c   Papathanassiou, Konstantinos P ^a  

^a GERMAN AEROSPACE CENTER DLR   (Germany)

^b NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

^c ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Forest height; L band; P band; Polarimetric synthetic aperture radar interferometry (Pol InSAR); Spatial baseline; Terrain slope

Indexed keywords

FORESTRY; INTERFEROMETRY; OPTICAL RADAR; POLARIMETERS; RADAR;

FOREST HEIGHT; L-BAND; POLINSAR; SPATIAL BASELINES; TERRAIN SLOPE;

SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR;

ESTIMATION METHOD; FOREST COVER; FREQUENCY ANALYSIS; GEOMETRY; HEIGHT; INTERFEROMETRY; INVERSE ANALYSIS; LIDAR; PERFORMANCE ASSESSMENT; SLOPE; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR; TERRAIN; WAVE;

FORESTS; INTERFEROMETRY; RADAR; REMOTE SENSING;

EID: 85027919692     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TGRS.2015.2420996     Document Type: Article

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