Analysis of temporal backscattering of cotton crops using a semiempirical model

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 42, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 577-587

  Maity, Saroj ^a   Patnaik, C ^a   Chakraborty, Manab ^a   Panigrahy, Sushma ^a  

^a INDIAN SPACE RESEARCH ORGANISATION   (India)

Author keywords

Crop attenuation; Differential moisture and crop height sensitivity; Leaf area index (LAI); Synthetic aperture radar (SAR) backscatter; Water cloud model

Indexed keywords

ATTENUATION; COMPUTER SIMULATION; COTTON; CROPS; ITERATIVE METHODS; LEAST SQUARES APPROXIMATIONS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MOISTURE; SOILS; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR; VOLUME FRACTION;

COTTON CROP; CROP ATTENUATION; LEAF AREA INDEX; SEMIEMPIRICAL MODEL; WATER-CLOUD MODEL;

BACKSCATTERING;

EID: 1842533517     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TGRS.2003.821888     Document Type: Article

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