Detection of permanent open water surfaces in central Siberia with ENVISAT ASAR wide swath data with special emphasis on the estimation of methane fluxes from tundra wetlands

Hydrology Research

Volumn 39, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 89-100

  Bartsch, Annett ^a   Pathe, Carsten ^a   Scipal, Klaus ^b   Wagner, Wolfgang ^a  

^a VIENNA UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Austria)

^b EUROPEAN CENTRE FOR MEDIUM RANGE WEATHER FORECASTS   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Remote sensing; ScanSAR; Siberia; Taymir; Tundra; Wetland

Indexed keywords

ECOSYSTEMS; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT; GAS EMISSIONS; GREENHOUSE GASES; METHANE; REMOTE SENSING; SATELLITE IMAGERY; SURFACE WATERS; WETLANDS;

METHANE FLUX; OPEN SURFACE WATER; SATELLITE RADAR IMAGERY;

HYDROLOGY;

CARBON DIOXIDE; CARBON SEQUESTRATION; DETECTION METHOD; ENVISAT-1; ESTIMATION METHOD; GREENHOUSE GAS; METHANE; OPEN WATER; REMOTE SENSING; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR; TUNDRA; WETLAND;

EURASIA; SIBERIA;

EID: 41949095468     PISSN: 00291277     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2166/nh.2008.041     Document Type: Article

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