Multiyear independent validation of the water cloud model for retrieving maize leaf area index from SAR time series

International Journal of Remote Sensing

Volumn 34, Issue 12, 2013, Pages 4156-4181

  Beriaux, Emilie ^a   Lucau Danila, Cozmin ^b   Auquiere, Eric ^a   Defourny, Pierre ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ CATHOLIQUE DE LOUVAIN   (Belgium)

^b JOINT RESEARCH CENTRE   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLOUD COMPUTING; CROPS; VEGETATION; WATER CONTENT;

ACCEPTABLE PERFORMANCE; CROSS VALIDATION; GROUND OBSERVATIONS; LEAF AREA INDEX; MODEL CALIBRATION; MULTI-YEAR DATA; RETRIEVAL ERRORS; WATER CLOUD MODELS;

SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR;

LEAF AREA INDEX; MAIZE; NUMERICAL MODEL; REMOTE SENSING; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR; TIME SERIES ANALYSIS;

BELGIUM;

ZEA MAYS;

EID: 84875962776     PISSN: 01431161     EISSN: 13665901     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/01431161.2013.772676     Document Type: Article

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