Progress in the understanding of narrow directional microwave scattering of agricultural fields

Remote Sensing of Environment

Volumn 115, Issue 10, 2011, Pages 2423-2433

  Wegmuller U ^a   Santoro, M ^a   Mattia, F ^b   Balenzano, A ^b   Satalino, G ^b   Marzahn, P ^c   Fischer, G ^c   Ludwig, R ^c   Floury, N ^d  

^a GAMMA REMOTE SENSING   (Switzerland)

^b INSTITUTE OF INTELLIGENT SYSTEMS FOR AUTOMATION   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^d EUROPEAN SPACE AGENCY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Agriculture; Directional; Flashing fields; Radar; Scattering

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL FIELDS; AGRICULTURAL SITES; AIRBORNE SAR; ASPECT ANGLES; DIRECTIONAL; DOPPLER CENTROID; EXPERIMENTAL EVIDENCE; FLASHING FIELDS; IN-SITU; MICROWAVE SCATTERING; SCATTER MODEL; SCATTERING PATTERN; SUB-BANDS;

DOPPLER EFFECT; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR;

SCATTERING;

AIRBORNE SURVEY; ARABLE LAND; AZIMUTH; BACKSCATTER; DATA SET; DETECTION METHOD; DOPPLER RADAR; ENVISAT-1; ERS-1; FIELD; IN SITU MEASUREMENT; REMOTE SENSING; SCATTERING; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR;

EID: 79960741618     PISSN: 00344257     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.rse.2011.04.026     Document Type: Article

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