Multitemporal radar backscattering measurement of wheat fields using multifrequency (L, S, C, and X) and full-polarization

Radio Science

Volumn 48, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 471-481

  Jia, Mingquan ^a   Tong, Ling ^a   Zhang, Yuanzhi ^b   Chen, Yan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ELECTRONIC SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY OF CHINA   (China)

^b CHINESE UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

backscattering coefficients; Biomass; Ground based radar scatterometer; Soil moisture; wheat fields; Wheat scattering

Indexed keywords

BACKSCATTERING; BIOMASS; ECOLOGY; METEOROLOGICAL INSTRUMENTS; POLARIZATION; RADAR; SOIL MOISTURE;

BACKSCATTERING COEFFICIENTS; CROSS POLARIZATIONS; EXPERIMENTAL EVIDENCE; RADAR BACKSCATTERING; SCATTEROMETERS; STRONG CORRELATION; TEMPORAL VARIATION; WHEAT FIELDS;

RADAR MEASUREMENT;

EID: 84883496096     PISSN: 00486604     EISSN: 1944799X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/rds.20048     Document Type: Article

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