Development of a ground-based polarimetric broadband SAR system for noninvasive ground-truth validation in vegetation monitoring

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 42, Issue 9, 2004, Pages 1803-1810

  Zhou, Zheng Shu ^a   Boerner, Wolfgang Martin ^b   Sato, Motoyuki ^a  

^a TOHOKU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b 1120 Science and Engineering Offices   (United States)

Author keywords

Polarimetric calibration; Radar polarimetry; Synthetic aperture radar (SAR); Vegetation monitoring

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; BANDWIDTH; CALIBRATION; ELECTRIC NETWORK ANALYZERS; IMAGING SYSTEMS; IMAGING TECHNIQUES; INTERFEROMETRY; MICROWAVES; POLARIZATION; REMOTE SENSING; SENSORS; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR; VECTORS;

DUAL-POLARIZED ANTENNAS; RADAR IMAGES; RADAR POLARIMETRY; VEGETATION MONITORING;

POLARIMETERS;

EID: 4744343570     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TGRS.2004.832248     Document Type: Article

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