Detecting a moorland wildfire scar in the Peak District, UK, using synthetic aperture radar from ERS-2 and Envisat ASAR

International Journal of Remote Sensing

Volumn 35, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 54-69

  Millin Chalabi, Gail ^a   McMorrow, Julia ^a   Agnew, Clive ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FIRE HAZARDS; FIRES; FORESTRY; GLOBAL POSITIONING SYSTEM; PEAT; PRECIPITATION (METEOROLOGY); WETLANDS;

ADVANCED SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADARS; BOUNDARY INFORMATION; GREY SCALE IMAGES; HEAVY PRECIPITATION; NATURAL GRASSLAND; PRECIPITATION DATA; PRECIPITATION EVENTS; SINGLE-LOOK COMPLEX DATUM;

SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR;

ENVISAT-1; ERS-2; GPS; GRASSLAND; HEATHLAND; LAND COVER; MOORLAND; PEATLAND; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR; TIME SERIES; TOPOGRAPHY; WILDFIRE;

DERBYSHIRE; ENGLAND; PEAK DISTRICT; UNITED KINGDOM;

AVES;

EID: 84890916037     PISSN: 01431161     EISSN: 13665901     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/01431161.2013.860658     Document Type: Article

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