Multitemporal C- and L-band polarimetric signatures of crops

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 37, Issue 5 II, 1999, Pages 2413-2429

  Skriver, Henning ^a   Svendsen, Morten Thougârd ^a   Thomsen, Anton Garde ^a  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF DENMARK   (Denmark)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CROPS; DATA REDUCTION; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE BACKSCATTERING; POLARIMETERS; REMOTE SENSING; SCATTERING PARAMETERS; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR;

CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; INCIDENCE ANGLE; POLARIMETRIC SIGNATURES; RADAR APPLICATIONS; RADAR POLARIMETRY;

RADAR IMAGING;

EID: 0033318080     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/36.789639     Document Type: Article

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