Analysis of urban areas affected by the 2011 off the Pacific coast of Tohoku earthquake and tsunami with L-Band SAR full-polarimetric mode

IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Letters

Volumn 9, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 472-476

  Watanabe, Manabu ^a   Motohka, Takeshi ^a   Miyagi, Yousuke ^a   Yonezawa, Chinatsu ^b   Shimada, Masanobu ^a  

^a JAPAN AEROSPACE EXPLORATION AGENCY   (Japan)

^b TOHOKU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Coherence; decomposition; earthquake; tsunami

Indexed keywords

AFFECTED AREA; AIRBORNE SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADARS; DISASTER AREAS; DOUBLE-BOUNCE SCATTERINGS; FOUR-COMPONENT DECOMPOSITION; L-BAND SAR; NONREFLECTION; PHASED ARRAY TYPE L-BAND SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADARS; POLARIMETRIC PARAMETERS; RADAR SCATTERING; SCATTERING MECHANISMS; SLOPE ANGLES; SYSTEMATIC CHANGES; URBAN AREAS;

ANISOTROPY; COHERENT LIGHT; DECOMPOSITION; EARTHQUAKES; SCATTERING; SURFACE SCATTERING; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR; TSUNAMIS;

POLARIMETERS;

EID: 84858080475     PISSN: 1545598X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/LGRS.2011.2182030     Document Type: Article

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