Lidar-aided analysis of boreal forest backscatter at Ku band

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Yuwei Chen, Ziyi Feng, Fashuai Li, Hui Zhou, Teemu Hakala, Mika Karjalainen, Juha Hyyppä

Published: 01 Jan 2020, Last Modified: 27 Sept 2024Int. J. Appl. Earth Obs. Geoinformation 2020EveryoneRevisionsBibTeXCC BY-SA 4.0
Abstract: Highlights•Ku-band returned energy ratio canopy-to-total is proportional to canopy structure.•Ku-band returned energy ratio is 0.84 correlates to LIDAR-derived canopy fraction.•LIDAR aided fitted model predicts Ku-band returned energy ratio with R2 0.912.