Modelling radar backscatter from crops during the growth cycle

Agronomie

Volumn 22, Issue 6, 2002, Pages 575-579

  Macelloni, Giovanni ^a   Paloscia, Simonetta ^a   Pampaloni, Paolo ^a   Ruisi, Roberto ^a   Dechambre, Monique ^a   Valentin, René ^a   Chanzy, André ^a   Prévot, Laurent ^a   Bruguier, Nadine ^a  

^a IFAC CNR   (Italy)

Author keywords

Backscattering model; Crop biomass; Remote sensing; Synthetic aperture radar (SAR)

Indexed keywords

BACKSCATTER; BIOMASS; CROP; MODELING; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR;

HELIANTHUS; TRITICUM AESTIVUM;

EID: 0036033391     PISSN: 02495627     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1051/agro:2002040     Document Type: Article

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