Waterline mapping in flooded vegetation from airborne SAR imagery

Remote Sensing of Environment

Volumn 85, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 271-281

  Horritt, M S ^a   Mason, D C ^b   Cobby, D M ^b   Davenport, I J ^b   Bates, P D ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF READING   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Shorelines; Synthetic aperture radar; Vegetation; Wetlands

Indexed keywords

BACKSCATTERING; IMAGE ANALYSIS; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR; WATER;

WATERLINE MAPPING;

VEGETATION;

AIRBORNE SENSING; BACKSCATTER; DIGITAL ELEVATION MODEL; MAPPING; SALTMARSH; SHORELINE; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR; VEGETATION;

NORTH SEA COAST; UNITED KINGDOM;

EID: 0037699042     PISSN: 00344257     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0034-4257(03)00006-3     Document Type: Article

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