On the SAR backscatter of burned forests: A model-based study in C-band, over burned pine canopies

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 52, Issue 10, 2014, Pages 6205-6215

  Kalogirou, Vasileios ^a,b   Ferrazzoli, Paolo ^b   Vecchia, Andrea Della ^a   Foumelis, Michael ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ROME TOR VERGATA   (Italy)

^b EU Satellite Centre   (Spain)

^c ESA ESRIN   (Italy)

Author keywords

Backscatter; burned areas; fire impacts; radiative transfer (RT) model

Indexed keywords

FIRES; POLARIZATION; SOIL MOISTURE;

BURNED AREAS; DIRECT MEASUREMENT; EUROPEAN REMOTE SENSING; FIRE IMPACTS; RADIATIVE TRANSFER MODEL; ROOT-MEAN SQUARE ERRORS; SIMULATED ENVIRONMENT; VOLUMETRIC SOIL MOISTURES;

BACKSCATTERING;

BACKSCATTER; CONIFEROUS TREE; FOREST CANOPY; FOREST ECOSYSTEM; FORESTRY MODELING; NUMERICAL MODEL; REMOTE SENSING; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR;

GREECE;

EID: 84901848925     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TGRS.2013.2295594     Document Type: Article

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