Adaptation of the MIMICS Backscattering Model to the Agricultural Context—Wheat and Canola at L and C Bands

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 32, Issue 1, 1994, Pages 47-61

  Brown, Ron J ^b   Brisco, Brian G ^b   Edwards, Geoffrey ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ LAVAL   (Canada)

^b CANADA CENTRE FOR REMOTE SENSING   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURE; CROPS; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE BACKSCATTERING; ERROR ANALYSIS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; RADAR IMAGING;

CANOLA; CROWN LAYER; MICHIGAN MICROWAVE CANOPY SCATTERING (MIMICS) BACKSCATTERING MODEL; TRUNK REGION; UNDERLYING ROUGH GROUND; WHEAT;

REMOTE SENSING;

EID: 0027927881     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: 15580644     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/36.285188     Document Type: Article

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