Flood mapping with terraSAR-X in forested regions in estonia

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

Volumn 7, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 562-577

  Voormansik, Kaupo ^a   Praks, Jaan ^b   Antropov, Oleg ^c   Jagomagi, Juri ^d   Zalite, Karlis ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TARTU   (Estonia)

^b AALTO UNIVERSITY   (Finland)

^c VTT TECHNICAL RESEARCH CENTRE OF FINLAND   (Finland)

^d Regio Ltd   (Estonia)

^e TARTU OBSERVATORY   (Estonia)

Author keywords

Flood mapping; synthetic aperture radar (SAR); temperate forest; X band

Indexed keywords

EID: 84894464579     PISSN: 19391404     EISSN: 21511535     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JSTARS.2013.2283340     Document Type: Article

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