Use of ENVISAT/ASAR wide-swath data for timely rice fields mapping in the Mekong River Delta

Remote Sensing of Environment

Volumn 115, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 1090-1101

  Bouvet, Alexandre ^a   Le Toan, Thuy ^a  

^a CESBIO   (France)

Author keywords

(Advanced) synthetic aperture radar (ASAR); Change; Mekong river delta; Rice mapping; Temporal; Wide swath

Indexed keywords

BACKSCATTERING; FOOD SUPPLY; GEODETIC SATELLITES; GREENHOUSE GASES; MAPPING; RADAR;

(ADVANCED) SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR (ASAR); CHANGE; MEKONG RIVER; RICE MAPPING; TEMPORAL; WIDE SWATH;

SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR;

BACKSCATTER; CROP PRODUCTION; DATA ACQUISITION; DATA SET; ENVISAT-1; FOOD SECURITY; PADDY FIELD; SATELLITE IMAGERY; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR; VEGETATION MAPPING;

MEKONG DELTA; MEKONG RIVER; VIET NAM;

EID: 80555126902     PISSN: 00344257     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.rse.2010.12.014     Document Type: Article

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