Estimating wheat yield: An approach for estimating number of grains using cross-polarised envisat-1 asar data

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 6410, Issue , 2006, Pages

  Patel, Parul ^a   Srivastava, Hari Shanker ^a   Navalgund, Ranganath R ^a  

^a INDIAN SPACE RESEARCH ORGANISATION   (India)

Author keywords

Crop biomass; Crop moisture; Crop volume; Envisat 1 ASAR; Head; Leaf; Number of grains; SAR Backscatter; Soil moisture; Stem; Wheat yield

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURE; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; REMOTE SENSING; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR;

CROP BIOMASS; CROP FIELD; CROP MOISTURE; INTERACTION FACTOR (IF); SOIL MOISTURE;

GRAIN (AGRICULTURAL PRODUCT);

AGRICULTURE; HARVESTING; LEAVES; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MOISTURE CONTENT; RADAR; REMOTE SENSING; STEMS; WHEAT;

EID: 33846799086     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.693930     Document Type: Conference Paper

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