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Remote Sensing of Wetland Types: Tropical Herbaceous Vegetation

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The classification of wetland vegetation classes is conditional upon the variety of species or community of species present and seasonal changes in the extent and duration of water and flooding patterns occurring within the landscape. The capability of detecting and mapping water flow under vegetation using synthetic aperture radar (SAR) enables information to be determined about the structure, composition and extent of surface vegetation types.

Fully polarimetric C, L and P –band SAR data was acquired over the Cambodian Tonle Sap Basin in September 2000 and interrogated to map thirteen wetland vegetation ecosystem classes at the western end of the Basin.

In a second example both SAR and optical imagery were used to map wetland vegetation on Lake Chilwa, Malawi.

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  1. School of Biological, Earth and Environmental Sciences, The University of New South Wales, High Street, Kensington, 2052, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

    Tony Milne

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  1. Institute for Land, Water and Society, Charles Sturt University, Albury, NSW, Australia

    C. Max Finlayson

  2. International Water Security Network, University of the West of England, Bristol, UK

    Mark Everard

  3. UNESCO-IHE, Institute for Water Education, Delft, The Netherlands

    Kenneth Irvine

  4. RM Wetlands and Environment Ltd., Littleworth, Oxfordshire, UK

    Robert J. McInnes

  5. U.S. Geological Survey, Wetland and Aquatic Research Center, Lafayette, LA, USA

    Beth A. Middleton

  6. Aquatic Ecosystems Group, Department of Water Science and Engineering, UNESCO-IHE, Institute for Water Education, Delft, The Netherlands

    Anne A. van Dam

  7. Institute for Land, Water and Society, Charles Sturt University, Albury, NSW, Australia

    Nick C. Davidson

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Milne, T. (2018). Remote Sensing of Wetland Types: Tropical Herbaceous Vegetation. In: Finlayson, C.M., et al. The Wetland Book. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-90-481-9659-3_304

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