TerraSAR-X data for burn severity evaluation in mediterranean forests on sloped terrain

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 48, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 917-929

  Tanase, Mihai Andrei ^a   Pérez Cabello, Fernando ^a   De La Riva, Juan ^a   Santoro, Maurizio ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZARAGOZA   (Spain)

^b GAMMA REMOTE SENSING   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Burn severity; Mediterranean forest; TerraSAR X (TSX); Topography

Indexed keywords

BACKSCATTER COEFFICIENTS; BEST ESTIMATES; BURN SEVERITY; DETERMINATION COEFFICIENTS; DUAL-POLARIZED; FOREST FIRES; INCIDENCE ANGLES; MEDITERRANEAN ENVIRONMENT; MEDITERRANEAN FOREST; SAR BACKSCATTER; SAR DATA; SLOPED TERRAINS; TERRASAR-X; TERRASAR-X (TSX); TEST SITE;

DEFORESTATION; IMAGING SYSTEMS; POLARIZATION; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; REMOTE SENSING; SATELLITES; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR; SYNTHETIC APERTURES;

BACKSCATTERING;

BACKSCATTER; FOREST FIRE; MEDITERRANEAN ENVIRONMENT; POLARIZATION; REMOTE SENSING; SATELLITE DATA; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR; TERRAIN; TOPOGRAPHY;

DEFORESTATION; FORESTRY; POLARIZATION; RADAR; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; REMOTE SENSING; SATELLITES;

SPAIN;

EID: 76349115821     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TGRS.2009.2025943     Document Type: Article

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