Estimating Tree Heights Using Multibaseline PolInSAR Data with Compensation for Temporal Decorrelation, Case Study: AfriSAR Campaign Data

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

Volumn 11, Issue 10, 2018, Pages 3464-3477

  Ghasemi, Nafiseh ^a   Tolpekin, Valentyn A ^a   Stein, Alfred ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TWENTE   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Fourier Legendre series; multibaseline SAR data; PCT; temporal decorrelation

Indexed keywords

COHERENT LIGHT; ESTIMATION; FORESTRY; FOURIER SERIES; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MEAN SQUARE ERROR; OPTICAL RADAR; STATISTICS; TOMOGRAPHY; VEGETATION;

ATMOSPHERIC MODEL; DE CORRELATIONS; LEGENDRE SERIES; SAR DATA; TEMPORAL DECORRELATION;

SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR;

EID: 85048982067     PISSN: 19391404     EISSN: 21511535     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JSTARS.2018.2869620     Document Type: Article

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