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Оглавление / Contents

1 Introduction ................................................. I 1.1 Carbon cycle ............................................ 1 1.2 Forest aboveground biomass .............................. 3 1.3 Global missions for forest biomass monitoring and requirements ............................................ 5 1.4 Objectives .............................................. 8 2 Methodology .................................................. 9 2.1 Synthetic Aperture Radar ................................ 9 2.1.1 SAR principles ................................... 9 2.1.2 SAR interferometry (InSAR) ...................... 13 2.1.3 Decorrelation ................................... 13 2.1.4 The Random Volume over Ground (RVoG) model ...... 16 2.1.5 SAR Tomography .................................. 19 2.2 Theory of allometry .................................... 20 2.2.1 The allometric equation ......................... 22 2.2.2 Self-thinning rule .............................. 22 2.2.3 Height-to-biomass allometric relationships ...... 24 2.2.4 Structure interactions and dynamics ............. 27 2.2.5 Plot sampling and scale ......................... 30 3 Discussion .................................................. 33 3.1 Large scale mapping with SAR systems ................... 33 3.2 Development of a structure-to-biomass allometry ........ 36 3.3 From biomass-derived allometric relationships to SAR reflectivity ........................................... 40 4 Conclusions and future work ................................. 47 5 References .................................................. 49 6 Publication summary ......................................... 57 6.1 List of original publications .......................... 57 6.2 I. Forest vertical structure characterization using ground inventory data for the estimation of forest aboveground biomass .................................... 58 6.3 II. Large Scale Biomass Classification in Boreal Forests with TanDEM-X Data ............................. 60 6.4 III. Forest aboveground biomass estimation from vertical reflectivity profiles at L-Band ............... 63