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2013
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Randi Berland FrøsethAbstract
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We provide a demonstration of the new tomographic profiling (TP) technique, here applied to forestry for the first time. The portable ground-based synthetic aperture radar (GB-SAR) system was used to capture profiles of the vertical polarimetric backscattering patterns through a 7 m tall stand of Norway spruce trees. The TP scheme collects data as for normal SAR imaging, but with the antennae aligned in the along-track direction. Adaptive post-processing meant that each TP scan simultaneously captured along-track image transects over the incidence angle range 0°–60°. An important feature of the derived image products is that incidence angle is constant at every point within an image. The measured HH–VV height backscatter profiles were very similar, whilst the cross-/co-polarization ratio showed very little variation with height through the stand. Backscattering profiles showed closest agreement with the branch biomass distribution through the canopy, rather than with trunk or branch + trunk biomasses. Equivalent interferometric tree heights were estimated from the centre of mass of the backscatter-height distribution, which displayed increasing height with increasing incidence angle. There was no significant vertical separation between the cross- and co-polarization returns.
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Matteo Balderacchi Pierre Benoit Philippe Cambier Ole Martin Eklo Alessandro Gargini Alexandra Gemitzi Melike Gurel Bjørn Kløve Zoran Nakic Elena Preda Stanko Ruzicic Przemyslaw Wachniew Marco TrevisanAbstract
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William G. Jr. Ambrose M.L. Carroll W.L. Locke S. La Rosa P. E. Aspholm G. Christensen Bjørn Mejdell LarsenAbstract
• While correlations between the SGI and environmental parameters were stronger before the Nickel smelter began operation in 1946 than after, there were still no significant relationships between interannual growth patterns and environmental conditions • Multivariate analysis of mineral ratios suggests a difference between preand post-1946 samples at one site • Preliminary results from fresh water pearl mussels collected from the Karpelva River do not reveal a strong sclerochronological proxy for environmental conditions even in the absence of pollution. • Shell mineralogy holds promise as a very long-term record of heavy metal concentrations in the environment
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Ricardo HolgadoAbstract
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