Mapping wetland water depths over the central Congo Basin using PALSAR ScanSAR, Envisat altimetry, and MODIS VCF data

Remote Sensing of Environment

Volumn 159, Issue , 2015, Pages 70-79

  Lee, Hyongki ^a   Yuan, Ting ^a   Jung, Hahn Chul ^b,c   Beighley, Edward ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HOUSTON   (United States)

^b NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

^d Northeastern University   (United States)

Author keywords

Envisat altimetry; MODIS VCF; PALSAR interferometry; PALSAR ScanSAR; SWOT; Wetland water depth

Indexed keywords

BACKSCATTERING; DIGITAL STORAGE; FLOODS; FORESTRY; INTERFEROMETRY; LINEAR REGRESSION; RADIOMETERS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SURFACE TOPOGRAPHY; SURFACE WATERS; WATER LEVELS; WETLANDS;

ENVISAT; MODIS VCF; SCANSAR; SWOT; WATER DEPTH;

GEODETIC SATELLITES;

ALTIMETRY; BACKSCATTER; ENVISAT; HYDRODYNAMICS; MODIS; PALSAR; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RIVER BASIN; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; WATER DEPTH; WETLAND;

PLANTS; WATER; WETLANDS;

CONGO BASIN;

EID: 84923833259     PISSN: 00344257     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.rse.2014.11.030     Document Type: Article

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