Monitoring freeze/thaw cycles using ENVISAT ASAR Global Mode

Remote Sensing of Environment

Volumn 115, Issue 12, 2011, Pages 3457-3467

  Park, Sang Eun ^a   Bartsch, Annett ^b   Sabel, Daniel ^b   Wagner, Wolfgang ^b   Naeimi, Vahid ^b,c   Yamaguchi, Yoshio ^a  

^a NIIGATA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b VIENNA UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Austria)

^c GERMAN AEROSPACE CENTER DLR   (Germany)

Author keywords

ENVISAT ASAR; Freeze thaw; Siberia; Synthetic Aperture Radar

Indexed keywords

DATA SETS; ENVISAT ASAR; FREEZE/THAW; FREEZE/THAW CYCLES; GLOBAL MONITORING; HIGH LATITUDES; LAND SURFACE; LEAST-SQUARE FITTING; PERMAFROST AREA; PERMAFROST REGION; PIECE-WISE; SIBERIA; STEP FUNCTIONS; TEMPORAL SAMPLING;

SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR;

PERMAFROST;

BACKSCATTER; DATA SET; ENVISAT-1; FREEZE-THAW CYCLE; LAND SURFACE; MONITORING; PERMAFROST; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR; TIME SERIES;

SIBERIA;

EID: 81355127616     PISSN: 00344257     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.rse.2011.08.009     Document Type: Article

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