Satellite microwave remote sensing of North Eurasian inundation dynamics: Development of coarse-resolution products and comparison with high-resolution synthetic aperture radar data

Environmental Research Letters

Volumn 5, Issue 1, 2010, Pages

  Schroeder, R ^a   Rawlins, M A ^a   McDonald, K C ^a   Podest, E ^a   Zimmermann, R ^b   Kueppers, M ^b  

^a CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HOHENHEIM   (Germany)

Author keywords

ALOS PALSAR; AMSR E; Dynamics; Eurasia; Extent; Inundation; Microwave; QuikSCAT; Wetland

Indexed keywords

DYNAMICS; GREENHOUSE GASES; MICROWAVES; NASA; REMOTE SENSING; SATELLITE IMAGERY; SURFACE WATERS; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR; WETLANDS;

ALOS PALSAR; AMSR-E; EURASIA; EXTENT; INUNDATION; QUIKSCAT;

FLOODS;

EID: 77950642001     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17489326     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1748-9326/5/1/015003     Document Type: Article

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