Inundated wetland dynamics over boreal regions from remote sensing: The use of Topex-Poseidon dual frequency radar altimeter observations

International Journal of Remote Sensing

Volumn 27, Issue 21, 2006, Pages 4847-4866

  Papa, F ^a,b,c   Prigent, C ^a   Rossow, W B ^c   Legresy, B ^b   Remy, F ^b  

^a OBSERVATOIRE DE PARIS   (France)

^b CNES   (France)

^c NASA GODDARD INSTITUTE FOR SPACE STUDIES   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATOLOGY; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; METEOROLOGICAL RADAR; RADIO ALTIMETERS; REMOTE SENSING;

BOREAL REGIONS; DUAL-FREQUENCY ALTIMETER; RADAR ALTIMETER; WETLAND DYNAMICS;

WETLANDS;

BACKSCATTER; RADAR ALTIMETRY; REMOTE SENSING; TOPEX-POSEIDON; WETLAND;

EID: 33751560050     PISSN: 01431161     EISSN: 13665901     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/01431160600675887     Document Type: Article

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