The K&C PALSAR mosaic of the African continent: Processing issues and first thematic results

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 49, Issue 10 PART 1, 2011, Pages 3593-3610

  De Grandi, Gianfranco D ^a   Bouvet, Alexandre ^a   Lucas, Richard M ^b   Shimada, Masanobu ^c   Monaco, Stefano ^d   Rosenqvist, Ake ^e  

^a JOINT RESEARCH CENTRE   (Italy)

^b ABERYSTWYTH UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^c JAPAN AEROSPACE EXPLORATION AGENCY   (Japan)

^d SARMAP SA   (Switzerland)

^e TTT Mid Tower 1708   (Japan)

Author keywords

Continental scale radar mapping; Phased Array L Band Synthetic Aperture Radar (PALSAR); Synthetic aperture radar (SAR) mosaic processing; Vegetation monitoring

Indexed keywords

ADVANCED LAND OBSERVING SATELLITES; CARBON CYCLES; DUAL-POLARIZATIONS; ENVIRONMENTAL CONSERVATION; GEOMETRIC ACCURACY; JAPAN SPACE EXPLORATION AGENCIES; JERS-1 SAR; L-BAND SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADARS; RAIN FORESTS; SPATIAL RESOLUTION; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR (SAR) MOSAIC PROCESSING; THEMATIC INFORMATION; VEGETATION MONITORING;

ANTENNA PHASED ARRAYS; CLIMATE CHANGE; CONSERVATION; SPACE RESEARCH; SYNTHETIC APERTURES;

SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR;

ACCURACY ASSESSMENT; ALOS; CARBON CYCLE; CLIMATE CHANGE; ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT; FOREST DYNAMICS; JERS-1; RAINFOREST; SAVANNA; SPATIAL RESOLUTION; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR; VEGETATION MAPPING;

AFRICA;

EID: 80053564192     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TGRS.2011.2165288     Document Type: Conference Paper

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