Interpreting RADARSAT-2 quad-polarization SAR signatures from rice paddy based on experiments

IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Letters

Volumn 9, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 65-69

  Yang, Shenbin ^a   Zhao, Xiaoyan ^a   Li, Bingbai ^b   Hua, Guoqiang ^a  

^a NANJING UNIVERSITY OF INFORMATION SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^b INSTITUTE OF PLANT PROTECTION   (China)

Author keywords

Crop; principal component analysis (PCA); RADARSAT 2; rice backscattering coefficient

Indexed keywords

BACKSCATTERING COEFFICIENTS; CANOPY HEIGHTS; GROWTH MONITORING; GROWTH PARAMETERS; GROWTH STAGES; IMPACT FACTOR; LEAF AREA INDEX; MULTICOLLINEARITY; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS (PCA); PRINCIPAL COMPONENT REGRESSION; RADARSAT-2; REGRESSION MODEL; RICE BACKSCATTERING COEFFICIENT; RICE PADDY; SPATIAL CHANGES; SPATIAL VARIATIONS; STEM DENSITY;

BACKSCATTERING; BIOMASS; CROPS; ECOLOGY; POLARIZATION; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR;

PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS;

EID: 84655161885     PISSN: 1545598X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/LGRS.2011.2160613     Document Type: Article

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