An assessment of temporal decorrelation compensation methods for forest canopy height estimation using airborne L-band same-day repeat-pass polarimetric SAR interferometry

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

Volumn 11, Issue 1, 2018, Pages 95-111

  Simard, Marc ^a   Denbina, Michael ^a  

^a CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Forest height; Polarimetric synthetic aperture radar (SAR) interferometry; Radar; Temporal decorrelation

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL SYSTEMS; DATA STRUCTURES; ESTIMATION; FORESTRY; INTERFEROMETRY; OPTICAL RADAR; POLARIMETERS; RADAR; RADAR MEASUREMENT;

BIOLOGICAL SYSTEM MODELING; DE CORRELATIONS; FOREST HEIGHT; L-BAND; POLARIMETRIC SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR INTERFEROMETRY (SAR); TEMPORAL DECORRELATION;

SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR;

AIRBORNE SURVEY; ALGORITHM; CORRELATION; FOREST CANOPY; HEIGHT; INTERFEROMETRY; SATELLITE DATA; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR; TEMPORAL ANALYSIS;

CANADA; MAINE; QUEBEC [CANADA]; UNITED STATES;

EID: 85033668833     PISSN: 19391404     EISSN: 21511535     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JSTARS.2017.2761338     Document Type: Article

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