Multi-temporal polarimetric RADARSAT-2 for land cover monitoring in Northeastern Ontario, Canada

Remote Sensing

Volumn 6, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 2372-2392

  Cable, Jeffrey W ^a   Kovacs, John M ^a   Shang, Jiali ^b   Jiao, Xianfeng ^a  

^a NIPISSING UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b AGRICULTURE AND AGRI FOOD CANADA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Backscatter intensity; Co polarized phase difference; Decomposition parameters; Incidence angle; Land use land cover; Monitoring; Northern Ontario; Polarimetric response plots; Polarimetric SAR; RADARSAT 2

Indexed keywords

BACKSCATTERING; DECOMPOSITION; FORESTRY; MERGERS AND ACQUISITIONS; MONITORING; POLARIMETERS; SURFACE WATERS; WETLANDS;

BACKSCATTER INTENSITY; CO-POLARIZED PHASE DIFFERENCE; INCIDENCE ANGLES; LAND USE/LAND COVER; ONTARIO; POLARIMETRIC SAR; RADARSAT-2; RESPONSE PLOT;

SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR;

DECAY; FORESTRY; IMAGE ANALYSIS; LAND USE; MERGERS AND ACQUISITIONS; ONTARIO; POLARIMETRY; SATELLITES; SURFACE WATER; WETLANDS;

EID: 84896958540     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20724292     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/rs6032372     Document Type: Article

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