Investigating spatial patterns of persistent scatterer interferometry point targets and landslide occurrences in the Arno River basin

Remote Sensing

Volumn 6, Issue 8, 2014, Pages 6817-6843

  Lu, Ping ^a   Bai, Shibiao ^b   Casagli, Nicola ^c  

^a TONGJI UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b NANJING NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c UNIVERSITY OF FLORENCE   (Italy)

Author keywords

Arno river basin; Bivariate K function; Landslide; Persistent scatterer interferometry; Spatial pattern

Indexed keywords

INTERFEROMETRY; MAPS; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR; WATERSHEDS;

K-FUNCTION; LANDSLIDE INVENTORIES; PERSISTENT SCATTERER INTERFEROMETRY (PSI); RIVER BASINS; SPATIAL PATTERNS; SPATIAL RELATIONSHIPS; SPATIAL STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR (SAR) IMAGES;

LANDSLIDES;

EID: 84905230192     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20724292     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/rs6086817     Document Type: Article

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