Polarimetric SAR as a Tool for Remote Sensing Salt Diapirs, Axel Heiberg Island, Nunavut

• Main Author: Harrington, Elise M.
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: Scholarship@Western 2018
• Subjects: Canadian Arctic; RADARSAT-2; spectroscopy; remote predictive geological mapping; gypsum; surface roughness; Geology; Arctic; Axel Heiberg Island; Canada; Heiberg; Nunavut
• Online Access: https://ir.lib.uwo.ca/etd/5321; https://ir.lib.uwo.ca/context/etd/article/7314/viewcontent/Harrington_Thesis_Rev3.pdf

The costs and hazards associated with traditional geological mapping have driven rapid advancement of remote predictive mapping techniques using satellite data. However, few studies have implemented synthetic aperture radar for geology. This study uses quad-polarimetric RADARSAT-2 and PALSAR-1 data...