Mapping macrophyte species in the amazon floodplain wetlands using fully polarimetric ALOS/PALSAR data

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 49, Issue 12 PART 1, 2011, Pages 4717-4728

  Sartori, Lauriana Rúbio ^a   Imai, Nilton Nobuhiro ^a   Mura, José Claudio ^b   Novo, Evlyn Márcia Leão De Moraes ^b   Silva, Thiago Sanna Freire ^b,c  

^a SÃO PAULO STATE UNIVERSITY UNESP   (Brazil)

^b INSTITUTO NACIONAL DE PESQUISAS ESPACIAIS   (Brazil)

^c UNIVERSITY OF VICTORIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Amazon floodplain; classification; macrophyte species; Phased Array Type L Band Synthetic Aperture Radar (PALSAR) data; polarimetric decomposition; radar polarimetry

Indexed keywords

AMAZON FLOODPLAIN; MACROPHYTES; PHASED ARRAY TYPE L-BAND SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR (PALSAR) DATA; POLARIMETRIC DECOMPOSITION; RADAR POLARIMETRY;

BANKS (BODIES OF WATER); BIOMASS; CLASSIFICATION (OF INFORMATION); COVARIANCE MATRIX; PLANTS (BOTANY); POLARIMETERS; POLAROGRAPHIC ANALYSIS; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR; WETLANDS;

RADAR MEASUREMENT;

ALOS; BIOMASS; COVARIANCE ANALYSIS; FIELDWORK; FLOODPLAIN; HERB; MACROPHYTE; MORPHOLOGY; POLARIZATION; RADAR; SATELLITE DATA; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; VEGETATION MAPPING; WETLAND;

AMAZON BASIN;

EID: 82155185186     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TGRS.2011.2157972     Document Type: Conference Paper

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