Interpreting ERS SAR signatures of agricultural crops in Flevoland, 1993-1996

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 38, Issue 2 I, 2000, Pages 651-657

  Saich, Paul ^a   Borgeaud, Maurice ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b EUROPEAN SPACE AGENCY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURE; ALGORITHMS; CLIMATOLOGY; CROPS; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE SCATTERING; GRAIN (AGRICULTURAL PRODUCT); RAIN; REMOTE SENSING; SUGAR BEETS; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR;

AGRICULTURAL CROPS; CROP CLASSIFICATION ALGORITHM; ELECTROMAGNETIC SCATTERING BY RANDOM MEDIA;

RADAR IMAGING;

EID: 0033872941     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/36.841995     Document Type: Article

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