Title :
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
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;
Conference_Titel :
Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium, 2004. IGARSS '04. Proceedings. 2004 IEEE International
Conference_Location :
Anchorage, AK
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-8742-2
DOI :
10.1109/IGARSS.2004.1370701
