Remote sensing of vegetation and flooding on Magela Creek Floodplain (Northern Territory, Australia) with the SIR-C synthetic aperture radar

Hydrobiologia

Volumn 500, Issue , 2003, Pages 65-82

  Hess, L L ^a   Melack, J M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; FLOODS; MARINE BIOLOGY; OCEAN HABITATS; POLARIMETERS; REMOTE SENSING; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR;

FLOODPLAIN INUNDATION; GRASSLANDS;

VEGETATION;

FLOODING; FLOODPLAIN; REMOTE SENSING; SEASONAL VARIATION; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR; VEGETATION COVER;

AUSTRALASIA; AUSTRALIA; MAGELA CREEK; NORTHERN TERRITORY;

ALLIGATOR; ELEOCHARIS; HYMENACHNE; NELUMBO NUCIFERA; PSEUDORAPHIS;

EID: 0344900028     PISSN: 00188158     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1024665017985     Document Type: Article

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