Analysis and interpretation of the COSMO-SkyMed observations of the 2011 Japan tsunami

IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Letters

Volumn 9, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 467-471

  Chini, Marco ^a   Pulvirenti, Luca ^b   Pierdicca, Nazzareno ^b  

^a ISTITUTO NAZIONALE DI GEOFISICA E VULCANOLOGIA   (Italy)

^b SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

Author keywords

2011 Japan tsunami; Change detection; COSMO SkyMed; flood; synthetic aperture radar (SAR)

Indexed keywords

CHANGE DETECTION; COASTAL AREA; COSMO-SKYMED; FLOODED AREAS; HIGH SPATIAL RESOLUTION; OPTICAL IMAGE; RADAR SIGNALS; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR (SAR); SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADARS (SAR); TSUNAMI WAVES; URBAN AREAS; WATER SURFACE;

COASTAL ZONES; DEBRIS; FLOODS; GEOMETRICAL OPTICS; TSUNAMIS;

SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR;

EID: 84858073414     PISSN: 1545598X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/LGRS.2011.2182495     Document Type: Article

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