SAR studies in the Yuma Desert, Arizona: Sand penetration, geology, and the detection of military ordnance debris

Remote Sensing of Environment

Volumn 67, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 320-347

  Schaber, Gerald G ^a  

^a UNITED STATES GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARID REGIONS; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE BACKSCATTERING; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE POLARIZATION; GEOLOGY; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE QUALITY; OPTICAL RESOLVING POWER; ORDNANCE; RADAR IMAGING; SAND; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR; VEGETATION;

IMAGE TONE;

REMOTE SENSING;

BACKSCATTER; DETECTION METHOD; GEOLOGY; SAND; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR;

UNITED STATES;

EID: 0033102516     PISSN: 00344257     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0034-4257(98)00093-5     Document Type: Article

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