Detecting seasonal flooding cycles in marshes of the Yucatan Peninsula with SIR-C polarimetric radar imagery

Remote Sensing of Environment

Volumn 59, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 157-166

  Pope, Kevin O ^a   Rejmankova, Eliska ^b   Paris, Jack F ^c   Woodruff, Robert ^c  

^a Geo Eco Arc Research   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACKSCATTERING; DATA REDUCTION; ECOSYSTEMS; FLOODS; PLANTS (BOTANY); POLARIMETERS; REMOTE SENSING;

EUROPEAN REMOTE SENSING SATELLITE (ERS); SHUTTLE IMAGING RADAR C;

RADAR IMAGING;

FLOODING; MARSH; MARSHES; RADAR IMAGERY; REMOTE SENSING; SATELLITE SENSING; SEASONAL CYCLE; SEASONAL CYCLES; SIR-C;

MEXICO, YUCATAN PENINSULA;

CLADIUM JAMAICENSE; ELEOCHARIS CELLULOSA; TYPHA DOMINGENSIS;

EID: 0030615383     PISSN: 00344257     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0034-4257(96)00151-4     Document Type: Article

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