Vegetation Height Inversion Method with Three-layer Model by Fusing the Ascending and Descending PolInSAR Data

Cehui Xuebao/Acta Geodaetica et Cartographica Sinica

Volumn 46, Issue 11, 2017, Pages 1868-1879

  Shen, Peng ^a   Wang, Changcheng ^a   Zhu, Jianjun ^a   Gao, Han ^a   Fu, Haiqiang ^a   Xie, Qinghua ^a   Wang, Sai ^a   He, Shuaishuai ^a  

^a CENTRAL SOUTH UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Ascending and descending; Random volume over ground; Three layer vegetation model; Three stage algorithm; Vegetation height; Vertical wave number

Indexed keywords

CARBON; CLIMATE CHANGE; ERRORS; FORESTRY; ITERATIVE METHODS; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; RADAR; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR;

ASCENDING AND DESCENDING; RANDOM VOLUME OVER GROUNDS; STAGE ALGORITHM; VEGETATION HEIGHT; VEGETATION MODEL; WAVE NUMBERS;

VEGETATION;

ALGORITHM; BIOMASS; CARBON CYCLE; CLIMATE CHANGE; FOREST CANOPY; FOREST ECOSYSTEM; GLOBAL CLIMATE; NUMERICAL METHOD; NUMERICAL MODEL; PRECISION; RAMSAR CONVENTION; SATELLITE DATA; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR; VEGETATION COVER;

EID: 85037813098     PISSN: 10011595     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.11947/j.AGCS.2017.20170122     Document Type: Article

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