Limitations and potential of satellite imagery to monitor environmental response to coastal flooding

Journal of Coastal Research

Volumn 28, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 457-476

  Ramsey III, Elijah ^a   Werle, Dirk ^b   Suzuoki, Yukihiro ^c,f   Rangoonwala, Amina ^d,g   Lu, Zhong ^e  

^a NATIONAL WETLANDS RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^b AERDE Environmental Research   (Canada)

^c AScI Corporation   (United States)

^d IAP World Services Inc   (United States)

^e CASCADES VOLCANO OBSERVATORY   (United States)

^f Japan Space Imaging Corporation   (Japan)

^g Five Rivers Services LLC   (United States)

Author keywords

Advanced Land Observing Satellite (ALOS) phased array type L band synthetic aperture radar (PALSAR); coastal marsh dieback; Environmental Satellite (Envisat) advanced synthetic aperture radar (ASAR); inundation mapping; Land Satellite (Landsat) Thematic Mapper (TM)

Indexed keywords

ALOS; BACKSCATTER; COASTAL WETLAND; DIEBACK; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; ENVIRONMENTAL RESPONSE; ENVISAT-1; ESTUARINE ENVIRONMENT; FLOODING; GRASS; HURRICANE GUSTAV 2008; HURRICANE IKE 2008; LANDSAT; MARSH; REMOTE SENSING; SATELLITE IMAGERY; SHORELINE; STORM SURGE; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR; THEMATIC MAPPING; VEGETATION INDEX; WATER LEVEL;

LOUISIANA; UNITED STATES;

SPARTINA ALTERNIFLORA;

EID: 84857808924     PISSN: 07490208     EISSN: 15515036     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2112/JCOASTRES-D-11-00052.1     Document Type: Article

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