Polarimetric decomposition analysis of ALOS PALSAR observation data before and after a landslide event

Remote Sensing

Volumn 4, Issue 8, 2012, Pages 2314-2328

  Yonezawa, Chinatsu ^a   Watanabe, Manabu ^b   Saito, Genya ^c  

^a TOHOKU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b JAPAN AEROSPACE EXPLORATION AGENCY   (Japan)

^c TOKYO INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Earthquake; Landslide; Polarimetric SAR; Scattering component disaster monitoring

Indexed keywords

BARE SOILS; DATA SETS; DISASTER MONITORING; LARGE-SCALE LANDSLIDES; OBSERVATION DATA; OBSERVATION SATELLITES; ORBIT DATA; PHASED ARRAY TYPE L-BAND SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADARS; POLARIMETRIC DATA; POLARIMETRIC DECOMPOSITION; POLARIMETRIC PARAMETERS; POLARIMETRIC SAR; RADAR SCATTERING; SNOW COVERED AREA; UNSUPERVISED CLASSIFICATION;

EARTHQUAKES; EIGENVALUES AND EIGENFUNCTIONS; FARMS; POLARIMETERS; POLARIZATION; SURFACE SCATTERING; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR;

LANDSLIDES;

EID: 84868154291     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20724292     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/rs4082314     Document Type: Article

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