The use of radar satellite data from multiple incidence angles improves surface water mapping

Remote Sensing of Environment

Volumn 140, Issue , 2014, Pages 652-664

  O'Grady, Damien ^a   Leblanc, Marc ^a,b   Bass, Adrian ^a  

^a JAMES COOK UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b INSTITUT DE RECHERCHE POUR LE DÉVELOPPEMENT   (France)

Author keywords

Absorption; Aral Sea; ASAR; Bragg resonance; Classification; Flood mapping; Incidence angle; Kazakhstan; Radar; Regression; Surface water; Uzbekistan; Wind effects

Indexed keywords

ARAL SEA; ASAR; BRAGG RESONANCE; FLOOD MAPPING; INCIDENCE ANGLES; KAZAKHSTAN; REGRESSION; UZBEKISTAN;

ABSORPTION; ARID REGIONS; BACKSCATTERING; CLASSIFICATION (OF INFORMATION); FLOODS; GEODETIC SATELLITES; RADAR; TIME SERIES; WIND EFFECTS;

SURFACE WATERS;

ACCURACY ASSESSMENT; ARID REGION; BACKSCATTER; CLASSIFICATION; CLOUD COVER; DATA SET; ENVISAT-1; FLOODING; MAPPING; MODIS; PIXEL; RADAR; SATELLITE DATA; SATELLITE SENSOR; SIGNAL; SURFACE WATER; TIME SERIES;

ARAL SEA;

EID: 84886426874     PISSN: 00344257     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.rse.2013.10.006     Document Type: Article

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