The γ0
HV differences between deforested areas and natural forests
varied with time and sometimes became small (e.g., site D1, mosaic
2010A) due to the larger variation of γ0 at deforested areas across the
mosaics compared with natural forests. The standard deviations of
time series γ0 were 0.24 dB (HH) and 0.17 dB (HV) for natural forests
and 0.59 dB (HH) and 0.73 dB (HV) for deforested areas for the six
test sites.