A simple normalized difference approach to burnt area mapping using multi-polarisation C-Band SAR

Remote Sensing

Volumn 9, Issue 8, 2017, Pages

  Engelbrecht, Jeanine ^a,b   Theron, Andre ^a,b   Vhengani, Lufuno ^a   Kemp, Jaco ^b  

^a CSIR MERAKA INSTITUTE   (South Africa)

^b STELLENBOSCH UNIVERSITY   (South Africa)

Author keywords

Burnt area; Polarimetric decomposition; RADARSAT 2; Sentinel 1; Synthetic aperture radar (SAR)

Indexed keywords

DECOMPOSITION; ECOLOGY; ECOSYSTEMS; ERRORS; FIRES; MAPPING; POLARIMETERS;

BURNT AREAS; ECOSYSTEM FUNCTIONING; FIRE PRONE ECOSYSTEMS; NORMALIZED DIFFERENCES; POLARIMETRIC DECOMPOSITION; RADARSAT-2; SCATTERING MECHANISMS; SENTINEL-1;

SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR;

EID: 85028329820     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20724292     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/rs9080764     Document Type: Article

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