Radar backscattering of intertidal mudflats observed by radarsat-1 SAR images and ground-based scatterometer experiments

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 49, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 1701-1711

  Lee, Hoonyol ^a   Chae, Heesam ^a   Cho, Seong Jun ^b  

^a Kangwon National University   (South Korea)

^b Korea Institute of Geosceince and Mineral Resources   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Evaporation time map; exposure time map; mudflat; normalized evaporation index; radar backscattering; Radarsat 1; scatterometer; synthetic aperture radar (SAR)

Indexed keywords

BACKSCATTERING; BIOACTIVITY; EVAPORATION; METEOROLOGICAL INSTRUMENTS; RADAR IMAGING; SURFACE WATERS;

EVAPORATION TIME; EVAPORATION TIME MAP; EXPOSURE TIME MAP; EXPOSURE-TIME; MUDFLATS; NORMALIZED EVAPORATION INDEX; RADAR BACKSCATTERING; RADARSAT 1; SCATTEROMETERS; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR; TIME MAPS;

SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR;

BACKSCATTER; DIELECTRIC PROPERTY; DIGITAL ELEVATION MODEL; DRAINAGE; EVAPORATION; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; IMAGE ANALYSIS; INTERTIDAL ENVIRONMENT; MUDFLAT; OBSERVATIONAL METHOD; RADAR; RADARSAT; SURFACE WATER; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR; TIDAL CYCLE;

KOREA;

EID: 79955619812     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TGRS.2010.2084094     Document Type: Article

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