Extraction of ground surface elevation from ZY-3 winter stereo imagery over deciduous forested areas

Remote Sensing of Environment

Volumn 159, Issue , 2015, Pages 194-202

  Ni, Wenjian ^a,b   Sun, Guoqing ^b   Ranson, Kenneth Jon ^c   Pang, Yong ^d   Zhang, Zhiyu ^a   Yao, Wei ^e  

^a INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

^c NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

^d RESEARCH INSTITUTE OF FORESTRY   (China)

^e TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Dense deciduous forest; Forest height; Ground surface elevation; Photogrammetry; Stereo imagery; ZY 3

Indexed keywords

FORESTRY; INFORMATION USE; PHOTOGRAMMETRY; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR;

DECIDUOUS FOREST; FOREST HEIGHT; GROUND SURFACE ELEVATION; STEREO IMAGERY; ZY-3;

STEREO IMAGE PROCESSING;

AIRBORNE SENSOR; BIOMASS; DECIDUOUS FOREST; DIGITAL ELEVATION MODEL; STEREO IMAGE; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR; TROPICAL FOREST; VERTICAL DISTRIBUTION;

FORESTS; IMAGES; SURFACES;

EID: 85027948340     PISSN: 00344257     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.rse.2014.12.007     Document Type: Article

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