Impact of spatial variability of tropical forest structure on radar estimation of aboveground biomass
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a Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA 91109, USA b Dept. of Atmospheric Sciences, University of California, Los Angeles, CA 90095, USA c Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT 06269, USA d International Center for Tropical Ecology, University of Missouri, USA e Dep. of Natural Resource Ecology, and Management, Iowa State University, Ames, IA 50011, USA
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