Assessment of wetland ecosystems and flooding in the Tonle Sap Basin, Cambodia, using AIRSAR

Author

Milne, Tony ; Tapley, Ian J.

Author_Institution

Horizon Geosci. Consulting, Belrose, NSW

Volume

3

fYear

2004

fDate

20-24 Sept. 2004

Firstpage

1858

Abstract

AIRSAR data were collected over the Tonle Sap and Angkor regions of Cambodia during the NASA-Australia sponsored PACRIM2 Mission flown in September 2000. This imagery was interrogated to produce a flood map of the western end of the TSGL against which subsequent seasonal changes in the extent and duration of flooding can be made using other radar and optical datasets acquired from spaceborne sensors. In addition, the multi-parameter capabilities of AIRSAR were used to classify and map the structure, composition and extent of wetland vegetation communities present at the time of data capture

Keywords

climatology; floods; remote sensing by radar; spaceborne radar; synthetic aperture radar; vegetation mapping; AD 2000 09; AIRSAR; Angkor region; Cambodia; NASA-Australia sponsored PACRIM2 Mission; TSGL; Tonle Sap Basin; flood map; flooding; multiparameter capability; optical dataset; radar dataset; seasonal change; spaceborne sensors; wetland ecosystems; wetland vegetation community; Australia; Ecosystems; Floods; Geoscience; Lakes; Laser radar; Radar polarimetry; Rivers; Spaceborne radar; Water resources;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium, 2004. IGARSS '04. Proceedings. 2004 IEEE International

Conference_Location

Anchorage, AK

Print_ISBN

0-7803-8742-2

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/IGARSS.2004.1370701

Filename

1370701