Topographic mapping of the german tidal flats analyzing SAR images with the waterline method

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 48, Issue 3 PART 1, 2010, Pages 1019-1030

  Heygster, Georg ^a   Dannenberg, Jens ^a   Notholt, Justus ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BREMEN   (Germany)

^b OceanWaveS GmbH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Monitoring; Radar; Synthetic aperture radar (SAR); Tidal flats; Waterline method; Wavelet

Indexed keywords

EUROPEAN REMOTE SENSING SATELLITES; GEO CODING; GERMAN BIGHT; INTERTIDAL ZONES; REGULAR GRIDS; SAR IMAGES; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR (SAR) IMAGES; TIDAL FLAT; TOPOGRAPHIC MAP; TOPOGRAPHIC MAPPING; WATER AREAS; WATERLINE METHOD; WAVELET;

MAPS; MONITORING; RADAR; TIDES; WATER LEVELS; WETLANDS;

SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR;

ALGORITHM; COASTAL ZONE; DATA PROCESSING; GAUGE; IMAGE ANALYSIS; INTERPOLATION; NUMERICAL MODEL; SATELLITE IMAGERY; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR; TIDAL FLAT; TOPOGRAPHIC MAPPING; WATER LEVEL; WAVELET ANALYSIS;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; GERMAN BIGHT; GERMANY; NORTH SEA;

EID: 79956206455     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TGRS.2009.2031843     Document Type: Article

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