Monitoring of the rice cropping system in the Mekong Delta using ENVISAT/ASAR dual polarization data

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 47, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 517-526

  Bouvet, Alexandre ^a   Le Toan, Thuy ^a   Lam Dao, Nguyen ^b,c,d  

^a CESBIO   (France)

^b Ho Chi Minh City Institute of Resources Geography   (Viet Nam)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^d VIETNAM NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Viet Nam)

Author keywords

(Advanced) Synthetic Aperture Radar (ASAR); Mekong Delta; Polarization ratio; Rice mapping

Indexed keywords

BACKSCATTERING; CLASSIFICATION (OF INFORMATION); INFORMATION USE; LAND USE; MAPPING; POLARIZATION;

(ADVANCED) SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR (ASAR); BACKSCATTERING COEFFICIENTS; CLASSIFICATION METHODS; MEKONG DELTA; POLARIZATION BEHAVIOR; POLARIZATION RATIOS; RICE CROPPING SYSTEMS; RICE MAPPING;

SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR;

ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; ENVISAT-1; FARMING SYSTEM; MAPPING METHOD; POLARIZATION; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR; TEMPORAL VARIATION;

ASIA; EURASIA; MEKONG DELTA; SOUTHEAST ASIA; VIET NAM;

EID: 59849099595     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TGRS.2008.2007963     Document Type: Article

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