Backscatter analysis using multi-temporal and multi-frequency SAR data in the context of flood mapping at River Saale, Germany

Remote Sensing

Volumn 7, Issue 6, 2015, Pages 7732-7752

  Martinis, Sandro ^a   Rieke, Christoph ^b  

^a GERMAN AEROSPACE CENTER DLR   (Germany)

^b FRIEDRICH SCHILLER UNIVERSITY JENA   (Germany)

Author keywords

ALOS PALSAR; Backscatter analysis; Flood; Partially submerged vegetation; RADARSAT 2; TerraSAR X; Time series

Indexed keywords

BACKSCATTERING; FLOODS; FORESTRY; MAPPING; RADAR; SATELLITES; SEMANTICS; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR; TIME SERIES; VEGETATION; WATER LEVELS;

AGRICULTURAL FIELDS; ALOS PALSAR; MICROWAVE WAVELENGTHS; MULTI FREQUENCY; RADAR WAVELENGTH; RADARSAT-2; SUBMERGED VEGETATION; TERRASAR-X;

TIME SERIES ANALYSIS;

DATA; FLOODING; PLANTS; RADAR;

EID: 84933514758     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20724292     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/rs70607732     Document Type: Article

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