Seasonal inundation monitoring and vegetation pattern mapping of the Erguna floodplain by means of a RADARSAT-2 fully polarimetric time series

Remote Sensing of Environment

Volumn 152, Issue , 2014, Pages 426-440

  Zhao, Lingli ^a   Yang, Jie ^a   Li, Pingxiang ^a   Zhang, Liangpei ^a  

^a Mapping and Remote Sensing   (China)

Author keywords

Floodplain; Polarimetry; RADARSAT 2; Random forests; SAR; Trajectory analysis

Indexed keywords

BANKS (BODIES OF WATER); BIOLOGY; CLIMATE CHANGE; DECISION TREES; MAPPING; POLARIMETERS; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR; VEGETATION;

FLOOD PLAINS; RADARSAT-2; RANDOM FORESTS; SAR; TRAJECTORY ANALYSIS;

FLOODS; POLARIMETERS;

DATA SET; FLOODING; FLOODPLAIN; HYDROPERIOD; MONITORING SYSTEM; RADARSAT-2; SEASONALITY; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR; TIME SERIES; TRAJECTORY; VEGETATION MAPPING; CLIMATE CHANGE; HYDROLOGICAL REGIME; MONITORING; OPEN WATER; PHENOLOGY; SATELLITE DATA; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; VEGETATION CLASSIFICATION;

ARGUN RIVER; CHINA; MONGOLIA; RUSSIAN FEDERATION;

EID: 84905370877     PISSN: 00344257     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.rse.2014.06.026     Document Type: Article

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