Polarimetric properties of burned forest areas at C- and L-band

IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and Remote Sensing

Volumn 7, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 267-276

  Tanase, Mihai A ^a   Santoro, Maurizio ^b   Aponte, Cristina ^c   De La Riva, Juan ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^b GAMMA REMOTE SENSING   (Switzerland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^d UNIVERSITY OF ZARAGOZA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Burn severity; Forest fires; Radar polarimetry

Indexed keywords

BURN SEVERITY; FOREST FIRES; L-BAND SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADARS; MEDITERRANEAN ENVIRONMENT; MULTIPLE LINEAR REGRESSION MODELS; POLARIMETRIC DECOMPOSITION; POLARIMETRIC TARGET DECOMPOSITION; RADAR POLARIMETRY;

BACKSCATTERING; DEFORESTATION; ESTIMATION; GEOMETRY; LINEAR REGRESSION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; SURFACE SCATTERING; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR;

POLARIMETERS;

ACCURACY ASSESSMENT; DECOMPOSITION ANALYSIS; ENVIRONMENTAL CONDITIONS; FOREST FIRE; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR;

COMBUSTION; DEFORESTATION; FOREST FIRES; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; POLARIMETRY; RADAR; REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

MEDITERRANEAN REGION;

EID: 84891749100     PISSN: 19391404     EISSN: 21511535     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JSTARS.2013.2261053     Document Type: Article

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