Temporal stability of X-band single-pass InSAR heights in a spruce forest: Effects of acquisition properties and season

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 53, Issue 3, 2015, Pages 1607-1614

  Solberg, Svein ^a   Weydahl, Dan Johan ^b   Astrup, Rasmus ^a  

^a NORWEGIAN INSTITUTE OF BIOECONOMY RESEARCH   (Norway)

^b NORWEGIAN DEFENCE RESEARCH ESTABLISHMENT FFI   (Norway)

Author keywords

Acquisition properties; Forest biomass; Forest monitoring; Interferometric synthetic aperture radar (InSAR); Single pass; Synthetic aperture radar (SAR); Temporal changes; X band

Indexed keywords

BIOMASS; FORESTRY; INTERFEROMETRY; POLARIZATION; RANDOM ERRORS;

ACQUISITION PROPERTIES; FOREST BIOMASS; FOREST MONITORING; INTERFEROMETRIC SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADARS; SINGLE PASS; TEMPORAL CHANGE; X BANDS;

SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR;

ABOVEGROUND BIOMASS; AIRBORNE SENSING; CONIFEROUS FOREST; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; FOREST INVENTORY; NUMERICAL MODEL; SEASONAL VARIATION; TEMPORAL ANALYSIS; TERRAIN;

NORWAY;

PICEA;

EID: 85027952425     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TGRS.2014.2346473     Document Type: Article

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