Monitoring Everglades freshwater marsh water level using L-band synthetic aperture radar backscatter

Remote Sensing of Environment

Volumn 150, Issue , 2014, Pages 66-81

  Kim, Jin Woo ^a   Lu, Zhong ^b   Jones, John W ^b   Shum, C K ^a,c   Lee, Hyongki ^d   Jia, Yuanyuan ^a  

^a OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

^c Wuhan National Laboratory for Optoelectronics   (China)

^d UNIVERSITY OF HOUSTON   (United States)

Author keywords

Backscatter coefficient; Everglades; InSAR; SAR; Wetland hydrology

Indexed keywords

BACKSCATTERING; BIODIVERSITY; HYDROLOGY; WATER LEVELS; WATER QUALITY; WETLANDS;

BACKSCATTER COEFFICIENTS; EVERGLADES; INSAR; SAR; WETLAND HYDROLOGY;

SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR;

FRESHWATER ECOSYSTEM; MARSH; RADAR IMAGERY; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; VEGETATION COVER; WATER LEVEL; WETLAND;

EVERGLADES; FLORIDA [UNITED STATES]; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84900412860     PISSN: 00344257     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.rse.2014.03.031     Document Type: Article

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