Suitability and limitations of ENVISAT ASAR for monitoring small reservoirs in a semiarid area

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 47, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 1536-1547

  Liebe, Jens R ^a   Van De Giesen, Nick ^b   Andreini, Marc S ^c,d   Steenhuis, Tammo S ^e   Walter, M Todd ^e,f  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BONN   (Germany)

^b DELFT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

^c INTERNATIONAL WATER MANAGEMENT INSTITUTE   (United States)

^d UNITED STATES AGENCY FOR INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT   (United States)

^e Department of Biological and Environmental Engineering   (United States)

^f UNIVERSITY OF ALASKA SOUTHEAST   (United States)

Author keywords

Bragg scattering; Radar; Remote sensing; Reservoirs; Resource management; Water; Water resources; West Africa

Indexed keywords

ACQUISITION TIME; ADVANCED SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADARS; BACK-SCATTERED RADARS; BRAGG SCATTERING; CLASSIFICATION RESULTS; CLASSIFICATION RULES; DRY SEASONS; ENVISAT; ENVISAT ASAR; HYDROLOGICAL IMPACTS; MANUAL CLASSIFICATIONS; NIGHT TIME; RADAR IMAGES; RADAR SATELLITES; RAINY SEASONS; RESERVOIRS; RESOURCE MANAGEMENT; RURAL POPULATIONS; SEMI-ARID AREAS; SEMI-ARID REGIONS; SIGNIFICANT IMPACTS; SMALL RESERVOIRS; SPATIAL AND TEMPORAL VARIABILITIES; STORAGE VOLUMES; SURFACE AREAS; WATER BODIES; WATER SURFACES; WEST AFRICA; WIND SPEED; WIND SPEED DATUM;

ARID REGIONS; DROUGHT; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE SCATTERING; HURRICANE EFFECTS; IMAGING SYSTEMS; MERGERS AND ACQUISITIONS; NATURAL RESOURCES MANAGEMENT; REMOTE SENSING; RESOURCE ALLOCATION; SURFACE WATERS; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR; SYNTHETIC APERTURES; VEGETATION; WIND EFFECTS;

RESERVOIRS (WATER);

CLASSIFICATION; DIEL VARIATION; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; ENVISAT-1; REMOTE SENSING; RESERVOIR; RESOURCE MANAGEMENT; RURAL AREA; SEMIARID REGION; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR; TEMPORAL VARIATION; WATER STORAGE;

AFRICA; SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA; WEST AFRICA;

EID: 67349202811     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TGRS.2008.2004805     Document Type: Article

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