Signatures of ERS-Envisat interferometric SAR coherence and phase of short vegetation: An analysis in the case of maize fields

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 48, Issue 4 PART 1, 2010, Pages 1702-1713

  Santoro, Maurizio ^a   Wegmüller, Urs ^a   Askne, Jan I H ^b  

^a GAMMA REMOTE SENSING   (Switzerland)

^b CHALMERS UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Coherence; Cross interferometry; Envisat; ERS 2; Interferometric water cloud model (IWCM); Maize; Phase; Vegetation

Indexed keywords

CROSS-INTERFEROMETRY; ENVISAT; ERS-2; INTERFEROMETRIC WATER CLOUD MODELS; MAIZE; PHASE;

COHERENT LIGHT; GEODETIC SATELLITES; INTERFEROMETRY; REMOTE SENSING; VEGETATION;

SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR;

ENVISAT-1; ERS-2; IMAGE ANALYSIS; INTERFEROMETRY; MAIZE; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; VOLUME;

SWITZERLAND;

HELIANTHUS; ZEA MAYS;

EID: 82455217253     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TGRS.2009.2034257     Document Type: Article

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