Radar vegetation index for estimating the vegetation water content of rice and soybean

IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Letters

Volumn 9, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 564-568

  Kim, Yihyun ^a,b   Jackson, Thomas ^c   Bindlish, Rajat ^c   Lee, Hoonyol ^b   Hong, Sukyoung ^a  

^a National Institute of Animal Science   (South Korea)

^b Kangwon National University   (South Korea)

^c U S DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE   (United States)

Author keywords

Leaf area index (LAI); microwave remote sensing; normalized difference vegetation index (NDVI); polarimetric scatterometer; radar vegetation index (RVI); vegetation water content (VWC)

Indexed keywords

LEAF AREA INDEX; MICROWAVE REMOTE SENSING; NORMALIZED DIFFERENCE VEGETATION INDEX; SCATTEROMETERS; VEGETATION INDEX; VEGETATION WATER CONTENT;

ESTIMATION; FORESTRY; METEOROLOGICAL INSTRUMENTS; NASA; OILSEEDS; POLARIMETERS; RADAR; REMOTE SENSING; SOIL MOISTURE;

VEGETATION;

EID: 84861196096     PISSN: 1545598X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/LGRS.2011.2174772     Document Type: Article

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