Using ALOS/PALSAR and RADARSAT-2 to Map Land Cover and Seasonal Inundation in the Brazilian Pantanal

IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and Remote Sensing

Volumn 3, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 560-575

  Evans, Teresa L ^a   Costa, Maycira ^a   Telmer, Kevin ^a   Silva, Thiago S F ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VICTORIA   (Canada)

^b INSTITUTO NACIONAL DE PESQUISAS ESPACIAIS   (Brazil)

Author keywords

ALOS PALSAR; flooding dynamics; habitat mapping; K C initiative; Pantanal; RADARSAT 2

Indexed keywords

ALOS/PALSAR; FLOODING DYNAMICS; HABITAT MAPPING; PANTANAL; RADARSAT-2;

BIODIVERSITY; ECOSYSTEMS; MAPPING; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR; VEGETATION; WETLANDS;

CLIMATE CHANGE;

ALOS; BIODIVERSITY; FLOODING; HABITAT; IMAGE ANALYSIS; LAND COVER; MAPPING; RADARSAT; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR; WETLAND;

BRAZIL; PANTANAL;

EID: 78650427165     PISSN: 19391404     EISSN: 21511535     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JSTARS.2010.2089042     Document Type: Article

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