Wetland inundation mapping and change monitoring using Landsat and airborne LiDAR data

Remote Sensing of Environment

Volumn 141, Issue , 2014, Pages 231-242

  Huang, Chengquan ^a   Peng, Yi ^a   Lang, Megan ^b   Yeo, In Young ^a   McCarty, Greg ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

^b USDA FOREST SERVICE   (United States)

^c AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH SERVICE   (United States)

Author keywords

Change; Forested wetlands; Landsat; LiDAR; Subpixel inundation percentage (SIP)

Indexed keywords

OPTICAL RADAR; STREAM FLOW; WETLANDS;

AIRBORNE LIDAR DATA; CHANGE; DROUGHT CONDITIONS; FORESTED WETLANDS; INUNDATION MAPPINGS; LANDSAT; STATISTICAL RELATIONSHIP; SUB PIXELS;

FLOODS;

DROUGHT; FORESTED CATCHMENT; LANDSAT; LIDAR; PIXEL; SATELLITE DATA; STREAMFLOW; TOPOGRAPHIC MAPPING; WATERSHED; WETLAND;

CHOPTANK RIVER; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84888420724     PISSN: 00344257     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.rse.2013.10.020     Document Type: Article

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