Forest above-ground biomass estimation using single-baseline polarization coherence tomography with P-Band PolInSAR data

Forests

Volumn 9, Issue 4, 2018, Pages

  Zhang, Haibo ^a   Wang, Changcheng ^a   Zhu, Jianjun ^a   Fu, Haiqiang ^a   Xie, Qinghua ^a   Shen, Peng ^a  

^a CENTRAL SOUTH UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Forest above ground biomass (AGB); P band PolInSAR; Polarization coherence tomography (PCT); Tomographic profiles

Indexed keywords

BACKSCATTERING; BIOMASS; CATCHMENTS; MEAN SQUARE ERROR; POLARIZATION; RADAR IMAGING; REFLECTION; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR; TOMOGRAPHY;

ABOVE GROUND BIOMASS; BACKSCATTERING COEFFICIENTS; COHERENCE TOMOGRAPHY; GEOMETRIC CHARACTERISTICS; PHYSICAL CHARACTERISTICS; POLINSAR; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR (SAR) IMAGES; TOMOGRAPHIC;

FORESTRY;

ABOVEGROUND BIOMASS; ESTIMATION METHOD; FOREST COVER; IMAGERY; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR; TOMOGRAPHY; VERTICAL PROFILE;

BIOMASS; FORESTRY; HEIGHT; INVERSION; PARAMETERS; POLARIZATION; REFLECTION; REFLECTIVITY;

EID: 85044426863     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19994907     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/f9040163     Document Type: Article

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