Utilizing SAR imagery and aquatic vegetation to map fresh and brackish lakes in the Brazilian Pantanal wetland

Remote Sensing of Environment

Volumn 105, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 204-213

  Costa, Maycira P F ^a,b   Telmer, Kevin H ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VICTORIA   (Canada)

^b INSTITUTO NACIONAL DE PESQUISAS ESPACIAIS   (Brazil)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CAMPINAS   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Brackish water lakes; Brazil; Classification; Ecosystem protection; Fresh water lakes; JERS 1; Pantanal; RADARSAT; Saline lakes; SAR

Indexed keywords

GEOCHEMISTRY; IMAGE ANALYSIS; INFORMATION ANALYSIS; MEASUREMENT THEORY; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR; VEGETATION;

BRACKISH WATER LAKES; ECOSYSTEM PROTECTION; FRESH WATER LAKES; PANTANAL; SALINE LAKES;

WETLANDS;

AQUATIC PLANT; BACKSCATTER; GEOCHEMISTRY; JERS-1; RADAR IMAGERY; RADARSAT; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR; WETLAND;

PANTANAL; SOUTH AMERICA;

TYPHA;

EID: 33750733876     PISSN: 00344257     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.rse.2006.06.014     Document Type: Article

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