Polarimetric decomposition with RADARSAT-2 for rice mapping and monitoring

Canadian Journal of Remote Sensing

Volumn 38, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 169-179

  Li, Kun ^a   Brisco, Brian ^b   Yun, Shao ^a   Touzi, Ridha ^b  

^a INSTITUTE OF REMOTE SENSING APPLICATIONS   (China)

^b CANADA CENTRE FOR REMOTE SENSING   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACKSCATTER SIGNALS; CLASSIFICATION ACCURACY; CONTROLLED EXPERIMENT; CROP YIELD; GROWING REGIONS; GROWTH MODELS; GROWTH STAGES; MULTI-TEMPORAL; PADDY RICE; POLARIMETRIC DATA; POLARIMETRIC DECOMPOSITION; POLARIMETRIC DECOMPOSITION TECHNIQUE; RADARSAT-2; RICE CROPS; RICE MAPPING; RICE MONITORING; RICE PADDY; RICE PRODUCTION; SOUTHEAST ASIA; TEMPORAL BACKSCATTER; WATER DISTRIBUTIONS; WATER SURFACE; YIELD ESTIMATION;

BACKSCATTERING; CROPS; ESTIMATION; IDENTIFICATION (CONTROL SYSTEMS); MAPPING; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR; WATER SUPPLY SYSTEMS;

POLARIMETERS;

EID: 84865778062     PISSN: 07038992     EISSN: 17127971     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5589/m12-024     Document Type: Article

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