Agricultural crop condition monitoring using airborne c-band synthetic aperture radar in southern alberta

International Journal of Remote Sensing

Volumn 17, Issue 13, 1996, Pages 2565-2577

  Cloutis, E A ^a   Connery, D R ^a   Dover, F J ^a   Major, D J ^b  

^a Aero Sense   (Canada)

^b LETHBRIDGE RESEARCH CENTRE   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURE; CROPS; DATA ACQUISITION; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE BACKSCATTERING; IMAGE PROCESSING; REMOTE SENSING; STATISTICS; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR;

AIRBORNE C BAND SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR; CROP CONDITION PARAMETER; CROP TYPE; LEAF AREA INDEX; PLANT HEIGHT;

RADAR IMAGING;

CROP MONITORING; IRRIGATION; RADAR IMAGERY; SAR;

CANADA, ALBERTA;

EID: 0030238308     PISSN: 01431161     EISSN: 13665901     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/01431169608949093     Document Type: Article

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