The SAR Handbook: Comprehensive Methodologies for Forest Monitoring and Biomass Estimation

Flores-Anderson, Africa Ixmuca ; Herndon, Kelsey E ; Thapa, Rajesh Bahadur ; Cherrington, Emil

关键词: SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR;    REMOTE SENSING;    FOREST MANAGEMENT;    ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING;    BIOMASS;    HANDBOOKS;    DATA ACQUISITION;    TECHNOLOGY UTILIZATION;   

RP-ID  :  MSFC-E-DAA-TN67454

学科分类：地球科学(综合)

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来源: NASA Technical Reports Server

【 摘 要 】

This Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) handbook of applied methods for forest monitoring and biomass estimation has been developed by SERVIR in collaboration with SilvaCarbon to address pressing needs in the development of operational forest monitoring services. Despite the existence of SAR technology with all-weather capability for over 30 years, the applied use of this technology for operational purposes has proven difficult. This handbook seeks to provide understandable, easy-to-assimilate technical material to remote sensing specialists that may not have expertise on SAR but are interested in leveraging SAR technology in the forestry sector.