Characterization of saline soils using airborne radar imagery

Remote Sensing of Environment

Volumn 57, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 127-142

  Taylor, Geoffrey R ^a   Mah, Abdullah H ^a   Kruse, Fred A ^b   Kierein Young, Kathy S ^b   Hewson, Robert D ^a   Bennett, Brian A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AIRSAR IMAGE; BACKSCATTER; DIELECTRIC CONSTANT; IRRIGATION; RADAR IMAGERY; SALINE SOIL; SOIL DEGRADATION;

AUSTRALIA, VICTORIA, PYRAMID HILL;

VICTORIA;

AIRBORNE RADAR IMAGERY; INVERSION; IRRIGATED REGIONS; SALINE SOILS; SALINITY;

CHARACTERIZATION; ELECTRIC CONDUCTIVITY; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE BACKSCATTERING; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE POLARIZATION; ENGINEERING GEOLOGY; GEOGRAPHICAL REGIONS; IRRIGATION; MAPS; PERMITTIVITY; RADAR IMAGING; SOILS; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR;

REMOTE SENSING;

EID: 0030222693     PISSN: 00344257     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0034-4257(95)00239-1     Document Type: Article

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