Rice monitoring with multi-temporal and dual-polarimetric terrasar-X data

International Journal of Applied Earth Observation and Geoinformation

Volumn 21, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 568-576

  Koppe, Wolfgang ^a,b   Gnyp, Martin L ^a   Hütt, Christoph ^a   Yao, Yinkun ^c   Miao, Yuxin ^c   Chen, Xinping ^c   Bareth, Georg ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLOGNE   (Germany)

^b AIRBUS DEFENCE AND SPACE   (Germany)

^c CHINA AGRICULTURAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Biomass estimation; Multi temporal; Polarimetry; Rice monitoring; Sar; Terrasar X

Indexed keywords

BACKSCATTER; CORRELATION; CULTIVATION; PHENOLOGY; REMOTE SENSING; RICE; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; TERRASAR-X;

CHINA; HEILONGJIANG; SANJIANG PLAIN;

EID: 84872779155     PISSN: 15698432     EISSN: 1872826X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jag.2012.07.016     Document Type: Article

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