Spaceborne PolSAR tomography for forest height retrieval

IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and Remote Sensing

Volumn 10, Issue 12, 2017, Pages 5175-5185

  Kumar, Shashi ^a   Joshi, Sushil Kumar ^b   Govil, Himanshu ^c  

^a INDIAN INSTITUTE OF REMOTE SENSING   (India)

^b GERMAN AEROSPACE CENTER DLR   (Germany)

^c NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (India)

Author keywords

Beamforming (BF); Capon; Capon like; forest height; Fourier; polarimetric synthetic aperture radar (SAR) tomography

Indexed keywords

ARRAY PROCESSING; BACKSCATTERING; BEAMFORMING; FORESTRY; FOURIER TRANSFORMS; POLARIMETERS; POLARIZATION; RADAR; RADAR SIGNAL PROCESSING; SIGNAL PROCESSING; SPACE APPLICATIONS; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR; TOMOGRAPHY;

ARRAY SIGNAL PROCESSING; CAPON; CAPON LIKE; FOREST HEIGHT; FOURIER; POLARIMETRIC SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADARS; SIGNAL PROCESSING ALGORITHMS; SPATIAL RESOLUTION;

SPACE-BASED RADAR;

ALGORITHM; FOREST; FOURIER TRANSFORM; HEIGHT DETERMINATION; RADAR IMAGERY; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR; THREE-DIMENSIONAL MODELING; TOMOGRAPHY;

HALDWANI; INDIA; UTTARAKHAND;

TECTONA GRANDIS;

EID: 85030317322     PISSN: 19391404     EISSN: 21511535     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JSTARS.2017.2741723     Document Type: Article

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