Effects of soil moisture and water depth on ERS SAR backscatter measurements from an Alaskan wetland complex

Remote Sensing of Environment

Volumn 113, Issue 9, 2009, Pages 1868-1873

  Kasischke, Eric S ^a   Bourgeau Chavez, Laura L ^b   Rober, Allison R ^c   Wyatt, Kevin H ^c   Waddington, James M ^d   Turetsky, Merritt R ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^c MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Boreal region; Hydrology; Soil moisture; Synthetic aperture radar; Water level; Wetlands

Indexed keywords

BLACK SPRUCE; BOREAL REGION; ERS SAR; HERBACEOUS VEGETATION; HYDROLOGIC CONDITIONS; NORTHERN LATITUDES; PEAT LAND; POSITIVE CORRELATIONS; SAR BACKSCATTER; TREE COVER; WATER DEPTH; WATER TABLE LEVEL; WETLAND SURFACE;

AQUIFERS; BACKSCATTERING; HYDROLOGY; IMAGE CLASSIFICATION; IMAGING SYSTEMS; MOISTURE DETERMINATION; PERMITTIVITY; PHOTOACOUSTIC EFFECT; RADAR; RADAR ANTENNAS; SOIL MOISTURE; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR; SYNTHETIC APERTURES; VEGETATION; WATER LEVELS; WETLANDS;

SOIL SURVEYS;

BACKSCATTER; ERS-1; HERB; MEASUREMENT METHOD; SOIL MOISTURE; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR; VEGETATION COVER; WATER DEPTH; WATER LEVEL; WATER TABLE; WETLAND;

ALASKA; NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES;

PICEA MARIANA;

EID: 67651124827     PISSN: 00344257     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.rse.2009.04.006     Document Type: Article

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