Monitoring sugarcane growth using ENVISAT ASAR data

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 47, Issue 8, 2009, Pages 2572-2580

  Lin, Hui ^a   Chen, Jinsong ^a   Pei, Zhiyuan ^b   Zhang, Songling ^b   Hu, Xianzhi ^a  

^a CHINESE UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

^b Development Research Center   (China)

Author keywords

ENVISAT Advanced Synthetic Aperture Radar (ASAR); Leaf area index (LAI); Sugarcane; Synthetic aperture radar (SAR)

Indexed keywords

ADVANCED SAR; ALTERNATING POLARIZATION; ASAR ALTERNATING POLARIZATION; ASAR DATA; CLASSIFICATION ACCURACY; EMPIRICAL MODEL; ENVISAT; ENVISAT ADVANCED SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR (ASAR); ENVISAT ASAR DATA; GROWTH STAGES; LEAF AREA INDEX; LEAF AREA INDEX (LAI); OPERATIONAL SYSTEMS; POLARIZATION DATA; POLARIZATION RATIOS; RADAR RESPONSE; RADIATIVE TRANSFER MODEL; SOUTHERN CHINA; STUDY AREAS; TEMPORAL RESPONSE; TEMPORAL VARIATION;

AGRICULTURE; IMAGE CLASSIFICATION; IMAGING SYSTEMS; PHOTOACOUSTIC EFFECT; POLARIZATION; RADAR; RADAR ANTENNAS; RADIATIVE TRANSFER; SYNTHETIC APERTURES;

SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR;

AGRICULTURAL LAND; EMPIRICAL ANALYSIS; ENVISAT-1; GROWTH RATE; LEAF AREA INDEX; POLARIZATION; RADIATIVE TRANSFER; SUGAR CANE; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR; TEMPORAL VARIATION;

ASIA; CHINA; EURASIA; FAR EAST;

EID: 67949123183     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TGRS.2009.2015769     Document Type: Article

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