Dual-season mapping of wetland inundation and vegetation for the central Amazon basin

Remote Sensing of Environment

Volumn 87, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 404-428

  Hess, Laura L ^a   Melack, John M ^a   Novo, Evlyn M L M ^b   Barbosa, Claudio C F ^b   Gastil, Mary ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b INSTITUTO NACIONAL DE PESQUISAS ESPACIAIS   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Amazon floodplain; Central Amazon Basin; Dual season mapping; Image segmentation; JERS 1; LBA; Vegetation; Wetland inundation; Wetland mapping; Wetland remote sensing

Indexed keywords

ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE BACKSCATTERING; IMAGE SENSORS; MAPPING; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR; VEGETATION; WATER; WETLANDS;

DUAL-SEASON MAPPING;

REMOTE SENSING;

FLOODING; JERS-1; MAPPING; REMOTE SENSING; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR; WETLAND;

AMAZON BASIN; SOUTH AMERICA;

EID: 0442314429     PISSN: 00344257     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.rse.2003.04.001     Document Type: Article

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