Towards detecting swath events in TerraSAR-X time series to establish NATURA 2000 grassland habitat swath management as monitoring parameter

Remote Sensing

Volumn 3, Issue 7, 2011, Pages 1308-1322

  Schuster, Christian ^a   Ali, Iftikhar ^a   Lohmann, Peter ^b   Frick, Annett ^c   Förster, Michael ^a   Kleinschmit, Birgit ^a  

^a TECHNISCHE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

^b LEIBNIZ UNIVERSITY HANNOVER   (Germany)

^c LUP Luftbild Umwelt Planung GmbH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Biodiversity; Environmental management; Multi temporal; NATURA 2000; Semi natural grassland; Swath detection; TerraSAR X; Time series

Indexed keywords

MULTI-TEMPORAL; NATURA 2000; SEMI-NATURAL GRASSLAND; SWATH DETECTION; TERRASAR-X;

AGRICULTURE; BIODIVERSITY; CONSERVATION; ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT; REMOTE SENSING; SATELLITES; TIME SERIES;

ECOSYSTEMS;

EID: 80052519359     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20724292     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/rs3071308     Document Type: Article

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