Detecting emergence, growth, and senescence of wetland vegetation with polarimetric synthetic aperture radar (SAR) data

Water (Switzerland)

Volumn 6, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 694-722

  Gallant, Alisa L ^a   Kaya, Shannon G ^b   White, Lori ^c   Brisco, Brian ^c   Roth, Mark F ^d   Sadinski, Walt ^d   Rover, Jennifer ^a  

^a U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

^b ENVIRONMENT CANADA   (Canada)

^c CANADA CENTRE FOR REMOTE SENSING   (Canada)

^d UPPER MIDWEST ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Change detection; Freeman Durden decomposition; Radar polarimetry; Radarsat 2; Synthetic aperture radar; Wetland mapping; Wetland monitoring; Wetland vegetation; Wetlands

Indexed keywords

MONITORING; POLARIMETERS; VEGETATION; WETLANDS;

CHANGE DETECTION; GROUND-BASED MONITORING; MONITORING INFORMATION; MORPHOLOGICAL TRAITS; POLARIMETRIC SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADARS; RADAR POLARIMETRY; RADARSAT-2; WETLAND VEGETATION;

SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR;

EMERGENCE; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; GROWING SEASON; GROWTH RATE; LANDSAT; POLICY MAKING; SATELLITE DATA; SENESCENCE; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR; VEGETATION STRUCTURE; WETLAND;

EID: 84899830040     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20734441     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/w6030694     Document Type: Article

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