Structural Classification of Marshes with Polarimetric SAR
The coastal marsh within Barataria Bay on the western side of the Mississippi River Delta was heavily impacted by the 2010 Deepwater Horizon oil spill. Polarimetric synthetic aperture radar (PolSAR) and field data were collected near-concurrently in the summers of 2010, 2011, and 2012 in the north-central Gulf of Mexico to assess the condition of coastal marshes, including Barataria Bay. PolSAR data alone were collected in 2009.