Backscattering behavior of rain-fed crops along the growing season

IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Letters

Volumn 10, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 386-390

  Larranaga, Arantzazu ^a   Alvarez Mozos, Jesús ^b   Albizua, Lourdes ^a   Peters, Jan ^c  

^a Department of Earth Information Systems ^*  (Spain)

^b PUBLIC UNIVERSITY OF NAVARRE   (Spain)

^c FLEMISH INSTITUTE FOR TECHNOLOGICAL RESEARCH VITO   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Backscatter; C band; crop monitoring; multipolarization; multitemporality; radar

Indexed keywords

BACKSCATTER; C-BAND; CROP MONITORING; MULTI-POLARIZATION; MULTITEMPORALITY;

BACKSCATTERING; POLARIZATION; RADAR;

CROPS;

EID: 84869508401     PISSN: 1545598X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/LGRS.2012.2205660     Document Type: Article

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