The contribution of ALOS PALSAR multipolarization and polarimetric data to crop classification

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 47, Issue 12, 2009, Pages 3981-3992

  McNairn, Heather ^a   Shang, Jiali ^a   Jiao, Xianfeng ^a   Champagne, Catherine ^a  

^a AGRICULTURE AND AGRI FOOD CANADA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Advanced Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) (ASAR); Crop classification; Multifrequency; Phased Array type L band SAR (PALSAR); RADARSAT

Indexed keywords

ADVANCED SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADARS; CROP CLASSIFICATION; L-BAND SAR; MULTI FREQUENCY; PHASED ARRAYS; RADARSAT;

BIOMASS; CROPS; IMAGE CLASSIFICATION; IMAGING SYSTEMS; PHOTOACOUSTIC EFFECT; POLARIMETERS; POLARIZATION; POLAROGRAPHIC ANALYSIS; RADAR; RADAR ANTENNAS; SATELLITE OBSERVATORIES; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR; SYNTHETIC APERTURES;

CLASSIFICATION (OF INFORMATION);

ACCURACY ASSESSMENT; ALOS; BIOMASS; CEREAL; DATA SET; FOOD SECURITY; HAY; LANDSAT; PASTURE; POLARIZATION; RADARSAT; SATELLITE IMAGERY; SOYBEAN; SUSTAINABILITY; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR; VEGETATION CLASSIFICATION;

GLYCINE MAX; ZEA MAYS;

EID: 70549104881     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TGRS.2009.2026052     Document Type: Article

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