Understanding C-band radar backscatter from wheat canopy using a multiple-scattering coherent model

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 41, Issue 7 PART I, 2003, Pages 1583-1591

  Picard, Ghislain ^a,b   Le Toan, Thuy ^a   Mattia, Francesco ^c,d  

^a CESBIO   (France)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

^c CNR   (Italy)

^d INSTITUTE OF INTELLIGENT SYSTEMS FOR AUTOMATION   (Italy)

Author keywords

Modeling; Radar; Wheat

Indexed keywords

ATTENUATION; BACKSCATTERING; COHERENT LIGHT; POLARIZATION; REMOTE SENSING; SATELLITES;

WHEAT CANOPIES;

SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR;

EID: 0042429066     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TGRS.2003.813353     Document Type: Conference Paper

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