The Chott El Djerid, Tunisia: Observation and discussion of a SAR Phase signature over evaporitic soils

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 52, Issue 9, 2014, Pages 5798-5806

  Paillou, Philippe ^a   Sufyar, Sarah ^a,b   Freeman, Anthony ^c  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE BORDEAUX   (France)

^b UNIVERSITÉ BORDEAUX 1   (France)

^c CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Chott; El Djerid; integral equation model (IEM); phase; playa; polarimetry; synthetic aperture radar (SAR); Tunisia

Indexed keywords

ARID REGIONS; INTEGRAL EQUATIONS; POLARIMETERS; SURFACE ROUGHNESS;

CHOTT; EL DJERID; INTEGRAL EQUATION MODELS; PHASE; PLAYA; TUNISIA;

SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR;

ARID REGION; BACKSCATTER; DIELECTRIC PROPERTY; EVAPORITE; PLAYA; POLARIZATION; REFLECTIVITY; SIGNAL; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR;

CHOTT EL DJERID; TUNISIA;

EID: 84900549580     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TGRS.2013.2292822     Document Type: Article

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