A RADARSAT-2 quad-polarized time series for monitoring crop and soil conditions in Barrax, Spain

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 50, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 1057-1070

  Susan Moran, M ^a   Alonso, Luis ^b   Moreno, Jose F ^b   Cendrero Mateo, Maria Pilar ^b   Fernando De La Cruz, D ^c   Montoro, Amelia ^c  

^a SOUTHWEST WATERSHED RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VALENCIA   (Spain)

^c Instituto Tecnico Agronomico Provincial de Albacete   (Spain)

Author keywords

Barley; corn; onion; phenology; Radarsat; Rapideye; Sentinel 1

Indexed keywords

BARLEY; CORN; ONION; PHENOLOGY; RADARSAT; RAPIDEYE; SENTINEL-1;

BIOLOGY; GRAIN (AGRICULTURAL PRODUCT); GRAIN GROWTH; IMAGE ACQUISITION; PHENOLS; POLARIZATION; SOIL MOISTURE; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR; TIME SERIES;

CROPS;

BACKSCATTER; BIOMASS; CROP PLANT; FREQUENCY ANALYSIS; GROWTH RATE; MONITORING; NDVI; PHENOLOGY; POLARIZATION; RADARSAT; REPRODUCTION; SOIL MOISTURE; SOIL TYPE; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR; TIME SERIES;

ALBACETE [CASTILLA-LA MANCHA]; BARRAX; CASTILLA-LA MANCHA; SPAIN;

ALLIUM CEPA; HORDEUM; MEDICAGO SATIVA; TRITICUM AESTIVUM; ZEA MAYS;

EID: 84859770956     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TGRS.2011.2166080     Document Type: Article

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