Coastal wetland mapping combining multi-date SAR and LiDAR

Geocarto International

Volumn 28, Issue 7, 2013, Pages 616-631

  Allen, Thomas Richard ^a   Wang, Yong ^a   Gore, Brent ^a  

^a EAST CAROLINA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

coastal wetlands; light detection and ranging (LiDAR); National Wetland Inventory; Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR)

Indexed keywords

COASTAL WETLAND; COASTAL ZONE; DIGITAL ELEVATION MODEL; LIDAR; MAPPING; REMOTE SENSING; SATELLITE DATA; SATELLITE IMAGERY; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR;

EID: 84887169952     PISSN: 10106049     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/10106049.2013.768297     Document Type: Article

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