A semi-empirical modelling approach to calculate two-way attenuation in radar backscatter from soil due to crop cover

Current Science

Volumn 100, Issue 12, 2011, Pages 1871-1874

  Srivastava, Hari Shanker ^a   Patel, Parul ^a   Sharma, K P ^a   Krishnamurthy, Y V N ^a   Dadhwal, V K ^a  

^a INDIAN SPACE RESEARCH ORGANISATION   (India)

Author keywords

Backscattering coefficient; Crop cover; Soil moisture; Synthetic aperture radar; Two way attenuation

Indexed keywords

TRITICUM AESTIVUM;

EID: 79960096810     PISSN: 00113891     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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