ASAR polarimetric, multi-incidence angle and multitemporal characterization of Doñana wetlands for flood extent monitoring

Remote Sensing of Environment

Volumn 114, Issue 11, 2010, Pages 2802-2815

  Marti Cardona, Belen ^a   Lopez Martinez, Carlos ^a   Dolz Ripolles, Josep ^a   Bladè Castellet, Ernest ^a  

^a UNIVERSITAT POLITÈCNICA DE CATALUNYA   (Spain)

Author keywords

ASAR; Envisat; Flood monitoring; Synthetic aperture radar; Wetland

Indexed keywords

ASAR; ASAR/ENVISAT; BARE SOILS; CLOSE-IN; ENVISAT; FLOOD MAPPING; FLOOD MONITORING; HELOPHYTES; HYDROLOGICAL YEARS; INCIDENCE ANGLES; LAND COVER; LAND-COVER TYPES; MULTI-TEMPORAL; NATIONAL PARKS; OPEN WATER SURFACE; PASTURE LANDS; PHENOLOGICAL STAGE; TEMPORAL SIGNATURES;

AGRICULTURE; BACKSCATTERING; IMAGING SYSTEMS; PARKS; POLARIZATION; RADAR; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR; SYNTHETIC APERTURES; WETLANDS;

MAPPING;

BACKSCATTER; BARE SOIL; ENVISAT-1; FLOOD; MAPPING METHOD; NATIONAL PARK; PASTURE; POLARIZATION; SURFACE WATER; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR; VEGETATION COVER; WETLAND;

ANDALUCIA; DONANA NATIONAL PARK; SPAIN;

EID: 77956173962     PISSN: 00344257     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.rse.2010.06.015     Document Type: Article

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