Understanding land subsidence in salt marshes of the Venice Lagoon from SAR Interferometry and ground-based investigations

Remote Sensing of Environment

Volumn 205, Issue , 2018, Pages 56-70

  Da Lio, Cristina ^a   Teatini, Pietro ^a,b   Strozzi, Tazio ^c   Tosi, Luigi ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF MARINE SCIENCES   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PADOVA   (Italy)

^c GAMMA REMOTE SENSING   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Salt marshes; Subsidence; TerraSAR X; Venice Lagoon

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; IMAGE RESOLUTION; INTERFEROMETRY; LAKES; SEA LEVEL; SEAWATER; SUBSIDENCE; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR;

GROUND BASED MEASUREMENT; INTERFEROMETRIC SAR; NEGATIVE CORRELATION; PERSISTENT SCATTERER INTERFEROMETRY (PSI); SALT MARSHES; TERRASAR-X; TRANSITIONAL ENVIRONMENTS; VENICE LAGOON;

WETLANDS;

ACCRETION; CONSOLIDATION; FELDSPAR; GPS; GROUND-BASED MEASUREMENT; HALOPHYTE; IMAGE RESOLUTION; INTERFEROMETRY; SALTMARSH; SATELLITE DATA; SUBSIDENCE; TERRASAR-X;

ITALY; VENETO; VENEZIA [VENETO]; VENICE LAGOON;

EID: 85034809299     PISSN: 00344257     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.rse.2017.11.016     Document Type: Article

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