Use of SIR-C/X-SAR to monitor environmental damages of the 1991 Gulf War in Kuwait

M. Craig Dobson; Andy Y. Kwarteng; Fawwaz T. Ulaby

Use of SIR-C/X-SAR to monitor environmental damages of the 1991 Gulf War in Kuwait

M. Craig Dobson^*, Andy Y. Kwarteng, Fawwaz T. Ulaby

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Remote Sensing & Geographic Information Systems

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Abstract

False composites of the synthetic image radar (SIR)-C/X-synthetic aperture radar (SAR) data reveal a number of features related to the environmental devastation wrought by the Gulf War. Of particular note are the buried oil lakes which are readily detected and mapped using the spectral gradient of hh-polarized backscatter. Knowledge of the location and extent of these bodies are of great importance to resource recovery and environmental remediation efforts.

Original language	English
Pages	119-121
Number of pages	3
Publication status	Published - 1997
Event	Proceedings of the 1997 IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium, IGARSS'97. Part 1 (of 4) - Singapore, Singapore Duration: Aug 3 1997 → Aug 8 1997

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Other	Proceedings of the 1997 IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium, IGARSS'97. Part 1 (of 4)
City	Singapore, Singapore
Period	8/3/97 → 8/8/97

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Use of SIR-C/X-SAR to monitor environmental damages of the 1991 Gulf War in Kuwait. / Dobson, M. Craig; Kwarteng, Andy Y.; Ulaby, Fawwaz T.
1997. 119-121 Paper presented at Proceedings of the 1997 IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium, IGARSS'97. Part 1 (of 4), Singapore, Singapore.

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