Backscatter change on fire scars in Siberian boreal forests in ENVISAT ASAR wide-swath images

IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Letters

Volumn 3, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 154-158

  Huang, Shengli ^a,b,c   Siegert, Florian ^b  

^a IEEE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^c Yellowstone Ecological Research Center   (United States)

Author keywords

Advanced Synthetic Aperture Radar (ASAR) wide swath; Backscatter; ENVISAT; Fire scar; Siberia

Indexed keywords

ADVANCED SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR (ASAR) WIDE SWATH; ENVISAT; FIRE SCAR;

FIRES; FORESTRY; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGING SYSTEMS; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR;

BACKSCATTERING;

FOREST FIRES; IMAGE ANALYSIS; RADAR; SCATTERING; SIBERIA;

EID: 31144452821     PISSN: 1545598X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/LGRS.2005.860483     Document Type: Article

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