Mapping the state and dynamics of boreal wetlands using synthetic aperture radar

Remote Sensing of Wetlands: Applications and Advances

Volumn , Issue , 2015, Pages 369-398

  Clewley, Daniel ^a   Whitcomb, Jane ^a   Moghaddam, Mahta ^a   McDonald, Kyle ^b  

^a University of Southern California ^*  (United States)

^b CITY COLLEGE OF NEW YORK   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC CHEMISTRY; CARBON DIOXIDE; GLOBAL WARMING; GREENHOUSE GASES; METHANE; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR;

ANAEROBIC DECOMPOSITION; ATMOSPHERIC CARBON; ATMOSPHERIC GREENHOUSE; BOREAL WETLANDS; COMPLEX FUNCTIONS; GLOBAL CLIMATE SYSTEM; METHANE EMISSIONS; SOIL CARBON;

WETLANDS;

EID: 85016639487     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1201/b18210     Document Type: Chapter

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