A long-term, high-resolution wetland dataset over the amazon basin, downscaled from a multiwavelength retrieval using SAR data

Journal of Hydrometeorology

Volumn 14, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 594-607

  Aires, Filipe ^a   Papa, Fabrice ^b   Prigent, C ^a  

^a OBSERVATOIRE DE PARIS   (France)

^b INSTITUT DE RECHERCHE POUR LE DÉVELOPPEMENT   (France)

Author keywords

Classification; Flood events; Hydrology; Interpolation schemes; Remote sensing; Satellite observations

Indexed keywords

CLIMATOLOGY; DATA SET; DOWNSCALING; FLOOD; IMAGE CLASSIFICATION; IMAGE PROCESSING; INTERPOLATION; REMOTE SENSING; SATELLITE DATA; SATELLITE MISSION; SPATIAL RESOLUTION; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR; WETLAND;

AMAZON BASIN;

EID: 84876730523     PISSN: 1525755X     EISSN: 15257541     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/JHM-D-12-093.1     Document Type: Article

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