Wetland inundation monitoring by the synergistic use of ENVISAT/ASAR imagery and ancilliary spatial data

Remote Sensing of Environment

Volumn 139, Issue , 2013, Pages 171-184

  Marti Cardona, Belen ^a   Dolz Ripolles, Josep ^a   Lopez Martinez, Carlos ^a  

^a UNIVERSITAT POLITÈCNICA DE CATALUNYA   (Spain)

Author keywords

ASAR; Clustering; Do ana; DTM guided filtering; Envisat; Flood mapping; Mahalanobis distance; Synthetic aperture radar; Wetland

Indexed keywords

ASAR; CLUSTERING; ENVISAT; FLOOD MAPPING; MAHALANOBIS DISTANCES;

BACKSCATTERING; CLIMATE CHANGE; CLUSTERING ALGORITHMS; ECOSYSTEMS; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; MAPPING; PIXELS; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR; VEGETATION; WATER RESOURCES; WETLANDS;

FLOODS;

ACCURACY ASSESSMENT; ALGORITHM; ANTHROPOGENIC EFFECT; BACKSCATTER; DIGITAL TERRAIN MODEL; ECOSYSTEM HEALTH; ENVISAT-1; FLOOD; HYDROLOGICAL CYCLE; MONITORING; PIXEL; SATELLITE IMAGERY; SPATIAL ANALYSIS; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; SUSTAINABILITY; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR; TOPOGRAPHIC MAPPING; VEGETATION MAPPING; WATER RESOURCE; WETLAND;

ANDALUCIA; DONANA; SPAIN;

EID: 84883500202     PISSN: 00344257     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.rse.2013.07.028     Document Type: Article

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