Large-scale habitat mapping of the Brazilian Pantanal wetland: A synthetic aperture radar approach

Remote Sensing of Environment

Volumn 155, Issue , 2014, Pages 89-108

  Evans, T L ^a   Costa, M ^a   Tomas, W M ^b   Camilo, A R ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VICTORIA   (Canada)

^b EMBRAPA CERRADOS   (Brazil)

Author keywords

ALOS PALSAR; ENVISAT ASAR; Habitat mapping; K C Initiative; Pantanal; RADARSAT 2; Wetlands

Indexed keywords

CONSERVATION; ECOSYSTEMS; FORESTRY; LUMINANCE; MAPPING; RADAR IMAGING; STATISTICS; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR; WETLANDS;

ALOS/PALSAR; ENVISAT/ASAR; HABITAT MAPPING; PANTANAL; RADARSAT-2;

C (PROGRAMMING LANGUAGE);

ALGORITHM; ALOS; ENVISAT-1; HABITAT CONSERVATION; NEAREST NEIGHBOR ANALYSIS; PALSAR; RADARSAT; SPATIAL RESOLUTION; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR; WETLAND;

BRAZIL; PANTANAL;

EID: 84909582564     PISSN: 00344257     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.rse.2013.08.051     Document Type: Article

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