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Assessment of tropical forest stand characteristics with multipolarization SAR data acquired over a mountainous region in Costa RicaA digital terrain elevation data set was coregistered with radar data for assessing tropical forest stand characteristics. Both raw and topographically corrected L-band polarimetric radar data acquired over the tropical forests of Costa Rica were analyzed and correlated with field-collected tree parameter data to study the stand characteristics. The results of analyses using 18 out of 81 plots for sites A and B indicated that per-plot bole volume and tree volume are related to SAR data, particularly at site A. The topographically corrected SAR data appear to produce the same findings as those of uncorrected data.
Document ID
19900062645
Acquisition Source
Legacy CDMS
Document Type
Reprint (Version printed in journal)
Authors
Wu, Shih-Tseng
(NASA John C. Stennis Space Center Bay Saint Louis, MS, United States)
Date Acquired
August 14, 2013
Publication Date
July 1, 1990
Publication Information
Publication: Vancouver, Canada, July 10-14, 1989) IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing
ISSN: 0196-2892
Subject Category
Earth Resources And Remote Sensing
Accession Number
90A49700
Distribution Limits
Public
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