Mapping plant functional types in floodplain wetlands: An analysis of C-band polarimetric SAR data from RADARSAT-2

Remote Sensing

Volumn 8, Issue 3, 2016, Pages

  Morandeira, Natalia S ^a,b   Grings, Francisco ^b,c   Facchinetti, Claudia ^d,e   Kandus, Patricia ^a  

^a UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL DE SAN MARTÍN   (Argentina)

^b Facultad de Ciencias Naturales e Instituto M Lillo   (Argentina)

^c INSTITUTO DE ASTRONOMÍA Y FÍSICA DEL ESPACIO   (Argentina)

^d ITALIAN SPACE AGENCY   (Italy)

^e Facultad de Ciencias Exactas Físicas y Naturales   (Argentina)

Author keywords

Incidence angle; Macrophytes; Marshes; Polarimetric decompositions; SAR polarimetry; Wishart classification

Indexed keywords

BANKS (BODIES OF WATER); BIODIVERSITY; CLIMATE CHANGE; FLOODS; PLANTS (BOTANY); POLARIMETERS; VEGETATION; WETLANDS;

INCIDENCE ANGLES; MACROPHYTES; MARSHES; POLARIMETRIC DECOMPOSITION; SAR POLARIMETRY; WISHART;

SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR;

EID: 84962594996     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20724292     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/rs8030174     Document Type: Article

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