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In this paper, RADARSAT-2 (Canada\u2019s C-band  new-generation radar satellite) and ALOS-PALSAR (Japan\u2019s advanced land observing satellite, phased array type L-band SAR sensor) data, acquired over the Shule River Alluvial Fan (SRAF), are used to extract backscattering coefficients, scattering mechanism-related information, and polarimetric characteristic parameters. The correlation between these SAR characteristic parameters and fan units of the SRAF of different ages was studied, and the spatial distribution of fan units, since the Late Pleistocene, was extracted based on the Maximum Likelihood classification method. The results prove that (1) some C-band SAR parameters can describe the geomorphic characteristics of alluvial fan units of different ages in the SRAF; (2) SAR data can be used to map the SRAF\u2019s surface between the Late Pleistocene and the Holocene and to extract the spatial distribution of fan units; and (3) the time-spatial distribution of the SRAF can provide valuable information for tectonic and paleoenvironmental research of the study area.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/rs5126997","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2013,12,16]],"date-time":"2013-12-16T15:23:30Z","timestamp":1387207410000},"page":"6997-7016","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":4,"title":["The Temporal-Spatial Distribution of Shule River Alluvial Fan Units in China Based on SAR Data and OSL Dating"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"5","author":[{"given":"Lu","family":"Zhang","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"Key Laboratory of Digital Earth Science, Institute of Remote Sensing and Digital Earth, Chinese Academy of Sciences, No. 9 Dengzhuang South Road, Beijing 100190, China"}]},{"given":"Huadong","family":"Guo","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Key Laboratory of Digital Earth Science, Institute of Remote Sensing and Digital Earth, Chinese Academy of Sciences, No. 9 Dengzhuang South Road, Beijing 100190, China"}]}],"member":"1968","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2013,12,16]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref_1","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","unstructured":"Parsons, A.J., and Abrahams, A.D. 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