Leland E. Pierce

According to our database, Leland E. Pierce authored at least 60 papers between 1992 and 2021.

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2021

Probability Assessment of Rainfall-Induced Landslides Based on Safety Factors Using Soil Moisture Estimation From SAR Images.

Shiyu Luo, Kamal Sarabandi, Ling Tong, Leland E. Pierce

IEEE Trans. Geosci. Remote. Sens., 2021

Model-Based Estimation of Forest Canopy Height and Biomass in the Canadian Boreal Forest Using Radar, LiDAR, and Optical Remote Sensing.

Michael L. Benson, Leland E. Pierce, Kathleen M. Bergen, Kamal Sarabandi

IEEE Trans. Geosci. Remote. Sens., 2021

Quantifying the Effect of the Wind on Trees Observed by Synthetic Aperture Radar Systems.

Michael L. Benson, Leland E. Pierce, Kamal Sarabandi

Proceedings of the IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium, 2021

2020

Sar Metadata Standards: Single-Look Complex Data.

Leland E. Pierce

Proceedings of the IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium, 2020

Quantifying the Effect of the Wind on Forest Canopy Height Estimation Using Interferometric Synthetic Aperture Radar Systems.

Michael L. Benson, Leland E. Pierce, Kamal Sarabandi

Proceedings of the IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium, 2020

2019

A SAR Image Classification Algorithm Based on Multi-Feature Polarimetric Parameters Using FOA and LS-SVM.

Shiyu Luo, Kamal Sarabandi, Ling Tong, Leland E. Pierce

IEEE Access, 2019

Progress in SAR Metadata Standards.

Leland E. Pierce

Proceedings of the 2019 IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium, 2019

2018

A Polarimetric Active Transponder With Extremely Large RCS for Absolute Radiometric Calibration of SMAP Radar.

Kamal Sarabandi, Mani Kashanianfard, Adib Y. Nashashibi, Leland E. Pierce, Ryan Hampton

IEEE Trans. Geosci. Remote. Sens., 2018

A Comprehensive Information Model for SAR Data.

Leland E. Pierce, Betty Evans, Siri Jodha S. Khalsa

Proceedings of the 2018 IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium, 2018

A Simulation Based Approach to Estimating the Three Dimensional Structure of the Harvard Forest with Multi-Modal Remote Sensing.

Michael L. Benson, Leland E. Pierce, Kamal Sarabandi

Proceedings of the 2018 IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium, 2018

2017

Efficiently dealing with the variety of sar data formats.

Leland E. Pierce

Proceedings of the 2017 IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium, 2017

The IEEE GRSS data and algorithm standard evaluation (DASE) website: Incrementally building a standardized assessment for algorithm performance.

Fabio Dell'Acqua, Gianni Cristian Iannelli, John P. Kerekes, Gabriele Moser, Leland E. Pierce, Emanuele Goldoni

Proceedings of the 2017 IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium, 2017

Estimating the three dimensional structure of the harvard forest using a database driven multi-modal remote sensing technique.

Michael L. Benson, Leland E. Pierce, Kamal Sarabandi

Proceedings of the 2017 IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium, 2017

Model-based estimation of large area forest canopy height and biomass using radar and optical remote sensing with limited lidar data.

Michael L. Benson, Leland E. Pierce, Kamal Sarabandi

Proceedings of the 2017 IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium, 2017

2016

Big Data issues for remote sensing: Variety.

Leland E. Pierce

Proceedings of the 2016 IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium, 2016

Report on International Spaceborne Imaging Spectroscopy Technical Committee calibration and validation workshop, national environment research council field spectroscopy facility, University of Edinburgh.

Cindy Ong, Andreas Müller, Kurtis J. Thome, Martin Bachmann, Jeffrey Czapla-Myers, Stefanie Holzwarth, Siri Jodha S. Khalsa, Christopher J. MacLellan, Timothy J. Malthus, Joanne M. Nightingale, Leland E. Pierce, Hirokazu Yamamoto

Proceedings of the 2016 IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium, 2016

Landslide prediction using soil moisture estimation derived from polarimetric Radarsat-2 data and SRTM.

Shiyu Luo, Kamal Sarabandi, Ling Tong, Leland E. Pierce

Proceedings of the 2016 IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium, 2016

A LS-SVM-based classifier with Fruit Fly Optimization Algorithm for polarimetric SAR images.

Shiyu Luo, Kamal Sarabandi, Ling Tong, Leland E. Pierce

Proceedings of the 2016 IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium, 2016

Estimating the three dimensional structure of heterogeneous forests using multi-modal remote sensing and sensor extrapolation techniques.

Michael L. Benson, Leland E. Pierce, Kamal Sarabandi

Proceedings of the 2016 IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium, 2016

Estimating boreal forest canopy height and above ground biomass using multi-modal remote sensing; a database driven approach.

Michael L. Benson, Leland E. Pierce, Kamal Sarabandi

Proceedings of the 2016 IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium, 2016

Exploring the Canadian boreal forest using airsar, LandSAT5, and virtual lidar.

Michael L. Benson, Leland E. Pierce, Kamal Sarabandi

Proceedings of the 2016 IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium, 2016

2013

Estimating the ground heightwith L-band IfSAR in a wind-blown forest environment.

Michael L. Benson, Leland E. Pierce, Kamal Sarabandi

Proceedings of the 2013 IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium, 2013

2012

Classifying the Canadian Boreal forest's structure using multi-modal remote sensing.

Michael L. Benson, Leland E. Pierce, Kathleen M. Bergen, Kamal Sarabandi

Proceedings of the 2012 IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium, 2012

2011

Forest structure estimation using SAR, LiDAR, and optical data in the Canadian Boreal forest.

Michael L. Benson, Leland E. Pierce, Kathleen M. Bergen, Kamal Sarabandi, Kailai Zhang, Caitlin E. Ryan

Proceedings of the 2011 IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium, 2011

2010

Model-Based Estimation of Forest Canopy Height in Red and Austrian Pine Stands Using Shuttle Radar Topography Mission and Ancillary Data: A Proof-of-Concept Study.

Charles G. Brown, Kamal Sarabandi, Leland E. Pierce

IEEE Trans. Geosci. Remote. Sens., 2010

A dual-frequency SAR mosaic of the Amazon.

Leland E. Pierce, Oton Barros

Proceedings of the IEEE International Geoscience & Remote Sensing Symposium, 2010

Quantifying the results of wind and rain on ifsar tree height estimation.

Michael L. Benson, Leland E. Pierce, Kamal Sarabandi

Proceedings of the IEEE International Geoscience & Remote Sensing Symposium, 2010

Extrapolation of LiDAR for forest structure estimation using SAR, InSAR, and optical data.

Michael L. Benson, Leland E. Pierce, Kathleen M. Bergen, Kamal Sarabandi, Kailai Zhang, Caitlin E. Ryan

Proceedings of the IEEE International Geoscience & Remote Sensing Symposium, 2010

2009

Variable Wind Influence on InSAR Imagery of Forests.

Michael L. Benson, Leland E. Pierce, Kamal Sarabandi

Proceedings of the IEEE International Geoscience & Remote Sensing Symposium, 2009

2007

Microwave Observatory of Subcanopy and Subsurface (MOSS): A Mission Concept for Global Deep Soil Moisture Observations.

Mahta Moghaddam, Yahya Rahmat-Samii, Ernesto Rodríguez, Dara Entekhabi, James Hoffman, Delwyn Moller, Leland E. Pierce, Sassan Saatchi, Mark Thomson

IEEE Trans. Geosci. Remote. Sens., 2007

2005

Radiative transfer model for microwave bistatic scattering from forest canopies.

Pan Liang, Leland E. Pierce, Mahta Moghaddam

IEEE Trans. Geosci. Remote. Sens., 2005

Radar backscattering model for multilayer mixed-species forests.

Pan Liang, Mahta Moghaddam, Leland E. Pierce, Richard M. Lucas

IEEE Trans. Geosci. Remote. Sens., 2005

Validation of the Shuttle Radar Topography Mission height data.

Charles G. Brown, Kamal Sarabandi, Leland E. Pierce

IEEE Trans. Geosci. Remote. Sens., 2005

The MOSS VHF/UHF spaceborne SAR system testbed.

Leland E. Pierce, Mahta Moghaddam

Proceedings of the IEEE International Geoscience & Remote Sensing Symposium, 2005

2004

The Bayesian hierarchical classifier (BHC) and its application to short vegetation using multifrequency polarimetric SAR.

Yanni Kouskoulas, Fawwaz T. Ulaby, Leland E. Pierce

IEEE Trans. Geosci. Remote. Sens., 2004

A computationally efficient multivariate maximum-entropy density estimation (MEDE) technique.

Yanni Kouskoulas, Leland E. Pierce, Fawwaz T. Ulaby

IEEE Trans. Geosci. Remote. Sens., 2004

A comparison of forest canopy height estimates derived from SRTM and TOPSAR in the Sierra Nevada of California.

Wayne S. Walker, Leland E. Pierce, Josef Kellndorfer, M. Craig Dobson, Carolyn T. Hunsaker, Jo Ann Fites

Proceedings of the 2004 IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium, 2004

Application of bistatic MIMICS to forest canopies.

Pan Liang, Leland E. Pierce

Proceedings of the 2004 IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium, 2004

Backscattering simulation for nonuniform forest canopies using multilayer MIMICS.

Pan Liang, Mahta Moghaddam, Leland E. Pierce

Proceedings of the 2004 IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium, 2004

2003

Mutual information based registration of SAR images.

Hua Xie, Leland E. Pierce, Fawwaz T. Ulaby

Proceedings of the 2003 IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium, 2003

GLORIA: Geostationary/Low-Earth Orbiting Radar Image Acquisition System: a multi-static GEO/LEO synthetic aperture radar satellite constellation for Earth observation.

Kamal Sarabandi, Josef Kellndorfer, Leland E. Pierce

Proceedings of the 2003 IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium, 2003

Regrowth biomass estimation in the amazon using JERS-1/RADARSAT SAR composites.

Leland E. Pierce, Pan Liang, Myron Craig Dobson, Josef Kellndorfer, Oton Barros, João Roberto dos Santos, João Vianei Soares

Proceedings of the 2003 IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium, 2003

Texture estimation in SAR images of forests.

Leland E. Pierce, Pan Liang, M. Craig Dobson

Proceedings of the 2003 IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium, 2003

2002

SAR speckle reduction using wavelet denoising and Markov random field modeling.

Hua Xie, Leland E. Pierce, Fawwaz T. Ulaby

IEEE Trans. Geosci. Remote. Sens., 2002

Statistical properties of logarithmically transformed speckle.

Hua Xie, Leland E. Pierce, Fawwaz T. Ulaby

IEEE Trans. Geosci. Remote. Sens., 2002

Despeckling SAR images using a low-complexity wavelet denoising process.

Hua Xie, Leland E. Pierce, Fawwaz T. Ulaby

Proceedings of the IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium, 2002

Calibration and validation of the Shuttle Radar Topography Mission height data for southeastern Michigan.

Kamal Sarabandi, Charles G. Brown, Leland E. Pierce, D. Zahn, R. Azadegan, K. Buell, M. Casciato, I. Koh, Daniel E. Lawrence, M. Park

Proceedings of the IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium, 2002

Fusion of optical and SAR data for forestry applications in the Sierra Nevada of California.

Leland E. Pierce, Wayne S. Walker, Myron Craig Dobson, Carolyn T. Hunsaker, Jo Ann Fites, Ralph Dubayah

Proceedings of the IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium, 2002

Regrowth biomass estimation in the amazon using JERS-1/RADARSAT SAR composites.

Leland E. Pierce, Pan Liang, Myron Craig Dobson

Proceedings of the IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium, 2002

Detection of selective logging and regrowth with CBERS CCD imagery.

Leland E. Pierce, Oton Barros, Myron Craig Dobson

Proceedings of the IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium, 2002

2000

An evaluation of the JPL TOPSAR for extracting tree heights.

Yutaka Kobayashi, Kamal Sarabandi, Leland E. Pierce, M. Craig Dobson

IEEE Trans. Geosci. Remote. Sens., 2000

1999

Multisensor data fusion using fuzzy concepts: application to land-cover classification using ERS-1/JERS-1 SAR composites.

Bassel Solaiman, Leland E. Pierce, Fawwaz T. Ulaby

IEEE Trans. Geosci. Remote. Sens., 1999

1998

Toward consistent regional-to-global-scale vegetation characterization using orbital SAR systems.

Josef Kellndorfer, Leland E. Pierce, M. Craig Dobson, Fawwaz T. Ulaby

IEEE Trans. Geosci. Remote. Sens., 1998

1996

Knowledge-based land-cover classification using ERS-1/JERS-1 SAR composites.

M. Craig Dobson, Leland E. Pierce, Fawwaz T. Ulaby

IEEE Trans. Geosci. Remote. Sens., 1996

1995

Polarimetric calibration of SIR-C using point and distributed targets.

Kamal Sarabandi, Leland E. Pierce, M. Craig Dobson, Fawwaz T. Ulaby, James M. Stiles, Tsenchieh Chiu, Roger D. De Roo, Ron Hartikka, Andrew Zambetti, Anthony Freeman

IEEE Trans. Geosci. Remote. Sens., 1995

Estimation of forest biophysical characteristics in Northern Michigan with SIR-C/X-SAR.

M. Craig Dobson, Fawwaz T. Ulaby, Leland E. Pierce, Terry L. Sharik, Kathleen M. Bergen, Josef Kellndorfer, John R. Kendra, Eric S. Li, Yi-Cheng Lin, Adib Y. Nashashibi, Kamal Sarabandi, Paul Siqueira

IEEE Trans. Geosci. Remote. Sens., 1995

1994

Cross-calibration experiment of JPL AIRSAR and truck-mounted polarimetric scatterometer.

Kamal Sarabandi, Leland E. Pierce, Yisok Oh, Myron Craig Dobson, Fawwaz T. Ulaby, Anthony Freeman, Pascale Dubois

IEEE Trans. Geosci. Remote. Sens., 1994

Knowledge-based classification of polarimetric SAR images.

Leland E. Pierce, Fawwaz T. Ulaby, Kamal Sarabandi, Myron Craig Dobson

IEEE Trans. Geosci. Remote. Sens., 1994

1992

Calibration of a polarimetric imaging SAR.

Kamal Sarabandi, Leland E. Pierce, Fawwaz T. Ulaby

IEEE Trans. Geosci. Remote. Sens., 1992

Preliminary analysis of ERS-1 SAR for forest ecosystem studies.

Myron Craig Dobson, Leland E. Pierce, Kamal Sarabandi, Fawwaz T. Ulaby, Terry L. Sharik

IEEE Trans. Geosci. Remote. Sens., 1992