Potentials of RADARSAT-2 data to monitor freezing/thawing cycles over agricultural lands in Canada

International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium (IGARSS)

Volumn 2, Issue , 2009, Pages

  Rousseau, Louis Philippe ^a   Magagi, Ramata ^a   Leconte, Robert ^b   Berg, Aaron ^c   Toth, Brenda ^d  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE SHERBROOKE   (Canada)

^b ÉCOLE DE TECHNOLOGIE SUPÉRIEURE   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF GUELPH   (Canada)

^d ENVIRONMENT CANADA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Agricultural areas; Frozen soils; Fully polarimetric images; RADARSAT 2; Target decomposition

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL AREAS; AGRICULTURAL LAND; AGRICULTURAL SITES; BRIGHTNESS TEMPERATURES; FREEZE/THAW CYCLES; FREEZING/THAWING; ONTARIO; POLARIMETRIC IMAGE; PRELIMINARY ANALYSIS; RADARSAT-2; RADARSAT-2 IMAGES; SASKATCHEWAN; SCATTERING MECHANISMS; SURFACE SCATTERING; TARGET DECOMPOSITION;

DECOMPOSITION; GEOLOGY; POLARIMETERS; POLAROGRAPHIC ANALYSIS; REMOTE SENSING; SCATTERING; TARGETS;

FROZEN SOILS;

EID: 77951129693     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/IGARSS.2009.5418155     Document Type: Conference Paper

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