Integration of optical and Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) imagery for delivering operational annual crop inventories

ISPRS Journal of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing

Volumn 64, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 434-449

  McNairn, Heather ^a   Champagne, Catherine ^a   Shang, Jiali ^a   Holmstrom, Delmar ^a   Reichert, Gordon ^b  

^a AGRICULTURE AND AGRI FOOD CANADA   (Canada)

^b STATISTICS CANADA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Classification; Crops; Multi polarization; Optical; SAR

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL LANDSCAPES; AGRICULTURAL POLICIES; CLASSIFICATION; CLASSIFICATION RESULTS; CROP CLASSIFICATION; CROPPING SYSTEMS; DATA SETS; DATA SOURCE; DUAL-POLARIZATIONS; ECONOMIC BENEFITS; ENVIRONMENTAL SUSTAINABILITY; ENVISAT ASAR; LAND-USE DECISIONS; MONITORING PROGRAMS; MULTI-POLARIZATION; MULTI-SITE; MULTI-TEMPORAL; OPERATIONAL REQUIREMENTS; OPTICAL; OPTICAL DATA; OPTICAL IMAGE; RESEARCH ACTIVITIES; SAR; SATELLITE DATA; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR IMAGERY;

CROPS; ECONOMICS; GEOMETRICAL OPTICS; IMAGE CLASSIFICATION; IMAGING SYSTEMS; LAND USE; PHOTOACOUSTIC EFFECT; POLARIZATION; RADAR; RADAR ANTENNAS; SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT; SYNTHETIC APERTURES;

SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR;

AGRICULTURAL LAND; AGRICULTURAL POLICY; AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH; ANNUAL PLANT; CROP; CROPPING PRACTICE; DECISION MAKING; ECONOMIC GROWTH; INVENTORY; LAND INFORMATION SYSTEM; LAND USE; MITIGATION; MONITORING SYSTEM; OPTICAL PROPERTY; POLARIZATION; SUSTAINABILITY; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR; TARGETING; TEMPORAL RECORD;

CANADA; NORTH AMERICA;

EID: 69849110324     PISSN: 09242716     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.isprsjprs.2008.07.006     Document Type: Article

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