Effects of inundated vegetation on X-band HH-VV backscatter and phase difference

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

Volumn 7, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 1402-1406

  Zalite, Karlis ^a   Voormansik, Kaupo ^b   Olesk, Aire ^b   Noorma, Mart ^b   Reinart, Anu ^b  

^a TARTU OBSERVATORY   (Estonia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TARTU   (Estonia)

Author keywords

Earth; radar polarimetry; remote sensing; synthetic aperture radar; vegetation

Indexed keywords

EARTH (PLANET); FLOODS; FORESTRY; PHASE SHIFT; PHASE SHIFTERS; REMOTE SENSING; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR; VEGETATION;

CONIFEROUS STANDS; DOUBLE BOUNCE MECHANISM; FLOODED CONDITIONS; PHASE DIFFERENCE; POLARIZATION DATA; RADAR POLARIMETRY; TREE HEIGHT; TREE SPECIES COMPOSITION;

BACKSCATTERING;

BACKSCATTER; FLOODING; RADAR IMAGERY; REMOTE SENSING; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR; VEGETATION;

FLOODS; OPTICAL SCATTERING; PLANTATIONS; POLARIMETRY; RADAR; REMOTE SENSING;

ESTONIA;

EID: 84899895993     PISSN: 19391404     EISSN: 21511535     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JSTARS.2013.2279552     Document Type: Article

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