Potential of SAR sensors TerraSAR-X, ASAR/ENVISAT and PALSAR/ALOS for monitoring sugarcane crops on Reunion Island

Remote Sensing of Environment

Volumn 113, Issue 8, 2009, Pages 1724-1738

  Baghdadi, Nicolas ^a   Boyer, Nathalie ^b   Todoroff, Pierre ^b   El Hajj, Mahmoud ^b   Bégué, Agnès ^b  

^a UMR TETIS   (France)

^b CIRAD   (France)

Author keywords

ASAR ENVISAT; PALSAR ALOS; Reunion Island; Sugarcane crop; TerraSAR X

Indexed keywords

ASAR/ENVISAT; PALSAR/ALOS; REUNION ISLAND; SUGARCANE CROP; TERRASAR-X;

BACKSCATTERING; CROPS; HARVESTING; POLARIZATION; SURFACE ROUGHNESS; SYNTHETIC APERTURES; VEGETATION;

SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR;

ALOS; BACKSCATTER; CROP PRODUCTION; HARVESTING; NDVI; SUGAR CANE; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR; WATER STRESS; WAVELENGTH;

INDIAN OCEAN; INDIAN OCEAN ISLANDS; MASCARENE ISLANDS; REUNION;

EID: 66049108862     PISSN: 00344257     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.rse.2009.04.005     Document Type: Article

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