Forest Above-Ground Biomass Estimation From Vertical Reflectivity Profiles at L-Band

IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Letters

Volumn 12, Issue 12, 2015, Pages 2379-2383

  Toraño Caicoya, Astor ^a   Pardini, Matteo ^a   Hajnsek, Irena ^b   Papathanassiou, Konstantinos ^a  

^a GERMAN AEROSPACE CENTER DLR   (Germany)

^b ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Biomass; Estimation; Image color analysis; L band; Remote sensing; Synthetic aperture radar

Indexed keywords

BIOMASS; ESTIMATION; MEAN SQUARE ERROR; METEOROLOGY; POLARIZATION; REFLECTION; REMOTE SENSING; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR;

ESTIMATION PERFORMANCE; IMAGE COLOR ANALYSIS; L-BAND; RADAR REFLECTIVITIES; REFLECTIVITY PROFILES; ROOT MEAN SQUARE ERRORS; SAR TOMOGRAPHY (SARTOM); VERTICAL REFLECTIVITY PROFILE;

FORESTRY;

EID: 85053361631     PISSN: 1545598X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/LGRS.2015.2477858     Document Type: Article

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