Monitoring of the Lac Bam wetland extent using dual-polarized X-band SAR data

Remote Sensing

Volumn 8, Issue 4, 2016, Pages

  Moser, Linda ^a   Schmitt, Andreas ^a   Wendleder, Anna ^a   Roth, Achim ^a  

^a GERMAN AEROSPACE CENTER DLR   (Germany)

Author keywords

Burkina Faso; Kennaugh decomposition; Lac Bam; Monitoring; Radar polarimetry; SAR; Time series; Wetlands

Indexed keywords

BIODIVERSITY; FLOODS; MONITORING; POLARIMETERS; REMOTE SENSING; TIME SERIES; VEGETATION; WATER RESOURCES; WETLANDS;

BURKINA FASO; CLASSIFICATION ACCURACY; LAC BAM; MULTITEMPORAL CLASSIFICATION; OPTICAL REMOTE SENSING DATA; POLARIMETRIC SAR DATA; POLARIMETRIC SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADARS; RADAR POLARIMETRY;

SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR;

EID: 84971663770     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20724292     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/rs8040302     Document Type: Article

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