The mangrove ecosystem plays a vital role in the global carbon cycle, by reducing
greenhouse gas emissions and mitigating the impacts of climate change. However …

Oil palm becomes an increasingly important source of vegetable oil for its production
exceeds soybean, sunflower, and rapeseed. The growth of the oil palm industry causes …

STATE OF THE CLIMATE IN 2015 Page 1 Special Supplement to the Bulletin of the American
Meteorological Society Vol. 97, No. 8, August 2016 STATE OF THE CLIMATE IN 2015 Page 2 …

Abstract NASA's Global Ecosystem Dynamics Investigation (GEDI), to be deployed on the
International Space Station (ISS) in 2018, will provide billions of measurements of ground …

Abstract Interferometric Synthetic Aperture Radar (InSAR) and lidar are increasingly used
active remote sensing techniques for forest structure observation. The TanDEM-X (TDX) …

The availability of advanced Machine Learning algorithms has made the estimation process
of biophysical parameters more efficient. However, the efficiency of those methods seldom …

This paper introduces the CASINO (CAnopy backscatter estimation, Subsampling, and
Inhibited Nonlinear Optimisation) algorithm for above-ground biomass (AGB) estimation in …

In this study, four models describing the interferometric coherence of the forest vegetation
layer are proposed and compared with the TanDEM-X data. Our focus is on develo** tools …

Estimation of forest biomass with synthetic aperture radar (SAR) and interferometric SAR
(InSAR) observables has been surveyed in 186 peer-reviewed papers to identify major …

Forest height is an important variable for modeling terrestrial carbon storage and global
carbon cycle dynamics. Spaceborne SAR Interferometry (InSAR) has the sensitivity to …