Sensitivity of PALSAR backscatters to aboveground biomass of three different forest types in Northeastern China

Jun Ma1, Xiangming Xiao2, Yuanwei Qin3, Bangqian Chen4, Yuanman Hu5, Xiangping Li1 and Bin Zhao6, (1)Fudan University, Shanghai, China, (2)University of Oklahoma Norman Campus, School of Biological Sciences, Norman, United States, (3)University of Oklahoma Norman Campus, Norman, OK, United States, (4)Danzhou Investigation & Experiment Station of Tropical Cops, Ministry of Agriculture, Rubber Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Tropical Agricultural Sciences (CATAS), Danzhou, China, (5)Institute of Applied Ecology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shenyang, China, (6)Ocean University of China, Key Laboratory of Marine Chemistry Theory and Technology, Ministry of Education, Qingdao, China