Flood and coastal zone monitoring in Bangladesh with Radarsat ScanSAR: Technical experience and institutional challenges

Johns Hopkins APL Technical Digest (Applied Physics Laboratory)

Volumn 21, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 148-154

  Werle, Dirk ^a   Martin, Timothy C ^b   Hasan, Khaled ^b  

^a Ærde Environmental Research   (Canada)

^b Government of The Netherlands   (Bangladesh)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COASTAL ZONES; FLOODS; HYDROLOGY; RADAR IMAGING; SATELLITE COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR;

FLOOD MONITORING;

REMOTE SENSING;

EID: 0033895071     PISSN: 02705214     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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