Sensitivity of X-, C-, and L-band SAR backscatter to burn severity in Mediterranean pine forests

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 48, Issue 10, 2010, Pages 3663-3675

  Tanase, Mihai A ^a   Santoro, Maurizio ^b   De La Riva, Juan ^a   Pérez Cabello, Fernando ^a   Le Toan, Thuy ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZARAGOZA   (Spain)

^b GAMMA REMOTE SENSING   (Switzerland)

^c CESBIO   (France)

Author keywords

Burn severity; forest fire; Mediterranean forest; SAR bakscatter

Indexed keywords

BURN SEVERITY; C-BANDS; CO-POLARIZED; CROSS-POLARIZED; DETERMINATION COEFFICIENTS; DYNAMIC RANGE; ENVIRONMENTAL CONDITIONS; FOREST FIRES; INCIDENCE ANGLES; L-BAND SAR; MEDITERRANEAN ENVIRONMENT; MEDITERRANEAN FOREST; PINE FOREST; RADAR BACKSCATTER; SAR BACKSCATTER; SAR BAKSCATTER;

BACKSCATTERING; DEFORESTATION; FIRES; IMAGING SYSTEMS; RADAR; SENSORS;

SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR;

BACKSCATTER; CONIFEROUS FOREST; DATA ACQUISITION; ENVIRONMENTAL CONDITIONS; FOREST FIRE; MEDITERRANEAN ENVIRONMENT; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SENSOR; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR;

COMBUSTION; DEFORESTATION; FOREST FIRES; FORESTRY; IMAGE ANALYSIS; RADAR; SENSORS;

SPAIN;

EID: 77957013646     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TGRS.2010.2049653     Document Type: Article

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