The sensitivity of RADARSAT-2 quad-polarization SAR data to crop LAI

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 7454, Issue , 2009, Pages

  Jiao, Xianfeng ^a   McNairn, Heather ^a   Shang, Jiali ^a   Pattey, Elizabeth ^a   Liu, Jiangui ^a   Champagne, Catherine ^a  

^a AGRICULTURE AND AGRI FOOD CANADA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Backscatter coefficient; Cloude pottier decomposition; Corn; Crop biomass; Polarimetric C band SAR; Polarimetric variables; Ratio of backscatter intensity; Sensitivity analysis; Soybean

Indexed keywords

BACKSCATTER COEFFICIENTS; BACKSCATTER INTENSITY; CORN; POLARIMETRIC C-BAND SAR; POLARIMETRIC VARIABLE; POTTIER DECOMPOSITION; SOYBEAN;

ACOUSTIC DEVICES; CROPS; ECOLOGY; ENTROPY; POLARIMETERS; POLARIZATION; POLAROGRAPHIC ANALYSIS; RADAR; REMOTE SENSING; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR;

BACKSCATTERING;

EID: 77955674566     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.825701     Document Type: Conference Paper

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