Monitoring Rice Agriculture in the Sacramento Valley, USA With Multitemporal PALSAR and MODIS Imagery

IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and Remote Sensing

Volumn 4, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 451-457

  Torbick, Nathan ^a   Salas, William A ^a   Hagen, Stephen ^a   Xiao, Xiangming ^b  

^a Applied Geosolutions   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA   (United States)

Author keywords

Agriculture; ALOS PALSAR; hydroperiod; MODIS; multitemporal; rice

Indexed keywords

ALOS PALSAR; HYDROPERIODS; MODIS; MULTI-TEMPORAL; RICE;

AGRICULTURE; FLOOD CONTROL; IMAGING SYSTEMS; LANDFORMS; MONITORING; RADAR IMAGING; SATELLITE IMAGERY; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR; TREES (MATHEMATICS);

RADIOMETERS;

MAPPING METHOD; MODIS; NDVI; RICE; SATELLITE IMAGERY; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR;

CALIFORNIA; SACRAMENTO VALLEY; UNITED STATES;

EID: 80052332606     PISSN: 19391404     EISSN: 21511535     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JSTARS.2010.2091493     Document Type: Article

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