C-band polarimetric indexes for maize monitoring based on a validated radiative transfer model

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 44, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 791-799

  Blaes, Xavier ^a,b   Defourny, Pierre ^a,b,e   Wegmüller, Urs ^a,c   Vecchia, Andrea Della ^a,d   Guerriero, Leila ^a,d   Ferrazzoli, Paolo ^a,d,f  

^a IEEE   (Belgium)

^b UNIVERSITÉ CATHOLIQUE DE LOUVAIN   (Belgium)

^c GAMMA REMOTE SENSING   (Switzerland)

^d UNIVERSITY OF ROME TOR VERGATA   (Italy)

^e Environmetry and Geomatics Research Lab

^f European Space Agency SMOS Project

Author keywords

Dual polarization; Maize growth; Soil moisture; Synthetic aperture radar (SAR) remote sensing

Indexed keywords

DUAL POLARIZATION; MAIZE GROWTH; SOIL MOISTURE; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR (SAR) REMOTE SENSING;

MOISTURE; POLARIZATION; SOILS; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR;

CROPS;

CORN; MOISTURE; POLARIZATION;

EID: 33645698989     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TGRS.2005.860969     Document Type: Article

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