Monitoring a boreal wildfire using multi-temporal Radarsat-1 intensity and coherence images

Geomatics, Natural Hazards and Risk

Volumn 2, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 15-32

  Rykhus, Russell ^a   Lu, Zhong ^b  

^a EARTH RESOURCES OBSERVATION AND SCIENCE EROS CENTER   (United States)

^b CASCADES VOLCANO OBSERVATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACKGROUND LEVEL; BACKSCATTERED INTENSITY; BURN SEVERITY; BURNED AREAS; CLOUD COVER; COHERENCE IMAGES; FORESTED AREA; GROWING SEASON; INTENSITY DATA; INTERFEROMETRIC COHERENCE; LAND COVER; LANDSCAPE CHANGES; MULTI-TEMPORAL; POST-FIRE; RADARSAT 1; STUDY SITES; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR IMAGES; TEST SITE; WILDLIFE REFUGE;

FIRES; IMAGING SYSTEMS; INTERFEROMETRY;

SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR;

EID: 79952726034     PISSN: 19475705     EISSN: 19475713     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/19475705.2010.532971     Document Type: Article

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