Capability of C-band SAR for operational wetland monitoring at high latitudes

Remote Sensing

Volumn 4, Issue 10, 2012, Pages 2923-2943

  Reschke, Julia ^a   Bartsch, Annett ^a   Schlaffer, Stefan ^a   Schepaschenko, Dmitry ^b  

^a VIENNA UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Austria)

^b INTERNATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR APPLIED SYSTEMS ANALYSIS   (Austria)

Author keywords

C band; Dynamics; Synthetic aperture radar; Wetland

Indexed keywords

C-BAND; CARBON STORAGE; CONTINUOUS MONITORING; DATA SETS; DEGREE OF SATURATIONS; ENVISAT ASAR; FIRE CONDITION; FUTURE CLIMATE; GLOBAL OBSERVATION; GRID CELLS; HIGH LATITUDES; LAND SURFACE MODELS; LONG TERM MONITORING; METHANE EMISSIONS; METHANE FLUXES; METHANE GAS; OPEN WATER; OPERATIONAL MONITORING; PEAT LAND; PERMAFROST REGION; SIBERIA; SOIL THAWING; STATIC AND DYNAMIC; WIDE SWATH;

CLIMATE CHANGE; DEFORESTATION; DYNAMICS; METHANE; PERMAFROST; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR;

WETLANDS;

DEFORESTATION; METHANE; RADAR; WETLANDS;

EID: 84869210844     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20724292     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/rs4102923     Document Type: Article

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