Agricultural crop monitoring using airborne multi-spectral imagery and c-band synthetic aperture radar

International Journal of Remote Sensing

Volumn 20, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 767-787

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

^a KING'S COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b University of Winnipeg ^*  (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WINNIPEG   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CORRELATION METHODS; CROPS; GRAIN (AGRICULTURAL PRODUCT); IRRIGATION; MULTISPECTRAL SCANNERS; RADAR IMAGING; SENSORS; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR;

AIRBORNE REMOTE SENSING; MULTISPECTRAL REMOTE SENSING;

REMOTE SENSING;

AIRBORNE SENSING; CROP; MULTISPECTRAL IMAGE; REMOTE SENSING; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR;

ALBERTA; CANADA;

EID: 0033541078     PISSN: 01431161     EISSN: 13665901     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/014311699213181     Document Type: Article

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