The relationship between the leaf area index (LAI) of rice and the C-band SAR vertical/horizontal (VV/HH) polarization ratio

International Journal of Remote Sensing

Volumn 30, Issue 8, 2009, Pages 2149-2154

  Chen, Jinsong ^a   Lin, Hui ^a   Huang, Chudong ^b   Fang, Chaoyang ^a  

^a CHINESE UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

^b ZHEJIANG UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

RADIATIVE TRANSFER; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR;

ADVANCED SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADARS; ALTERNATING POLARIZATION; ASAR ALTERNATING POLARIZATION; EMPIRICAL RELATIONSHIPS; LEAF AREA INDEX; POLARIZATION RATIOS; RADIATIVE TRANSFER MODEL; WIDE AREA MONITORING;

POLARIZATION;

EMPIRICAL ANALYSIS; ENVISAT-1; ESTIMATION METHOD; IMAGE ANALYSIS; LEAF AREA INDEX; MODELING; RADIATIVE TRANSFER; RICE; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR;

EID: 67650251673     PISSN: 01431161     EISSN: 13665901     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/01431160802609700     Document Type: Article

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