Pasture monitoring using SAR with COSMO-skymed, ENVISAT ASAR, and ALOS PALSAR in Otway, Australia

Remote Sensing

Volumn 5, Issue 7, 2013, Pages 3611-3636

  Wang, Xin ^a   Ge, Linlin ^a   Li, Xiaojing ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

Author keywords

ALOS PALSAR; COSMO SkyMed; ENVISAT ASAR; EVI; Landsat TM; MODIS; NDVI; NDWI; Pasture

Indexed keywords

ALOS PALSAR; COSMO-SKYMED; ENVISAT ASAR; EVI; LANDSAT TM; MODIS; NDVI; NDWI; PASTURE;

BACKSCATTERING; BIOMASS; FORESTRY; GEODETIC SATELLITES; GEOMETRICAL OPTICS; RADIOMETERS; SATELLITE IMAGERY; SOIL MOISTURE; SOIL SURVEYS; VEGETATION;

SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR;

EID: 84881514361     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20724292     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/rs5073611     Document Type: Article

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