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Wetlands Water Level Changes

Wetland Interferometric Synthetic Aperture Radar(InSAR) is a relatively new application of the InSAR technique, which detects water level changes in aquatic environments with emergent vegetation. It provides high spatial resolution hydrological observations of wetland and floodplains that cannot be obtained by any terrestrial-based method. However, InSAR observations are relative both in space and time and, hence, depend on terrestrial (stage) observations for calibration and validation. (from Wdowinski et al, 2006)

Wetlands Water Level Changes Figure 1

Figure 1 - Image published in EOS, May, 2008, cover of the Spring AGU meeting in Ft. Lauderdale. Shimon Wdowinski, Sang-Wan Kim, Falk Amelung, and Tim Dixon, 2006, Webland InSAR: A new space-based hydrological monitoring tool of wetlands surface water level changes, Proceedings for Globe Wetlands Meeting, Frascati, Italy. More information is available in this PDF.


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