Sensitivity analysis of X-band SAR to wheat and barley leaf area index in the Merguellil Basin

Remote Sensing Letters

Volumn 4, Issue 11, 2013, Pages 1107-1116

  Fontanelli, Giacomo ^a   Paloscia, Simonetta ^a   Zribi, Mehrez ^b   Chahbi, Aicha ^c  

^a IFAC CNR   (Italy)

^b CNES   (France)

^c INSTITUT NATIONAL AGRONOMIQUE DE TUNISIE   (Tunisia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACKSCATTERING COEFFICIENTS; GREEN PLANTS; IN-SITU MEASUREMENT; LEAF AREA INDEX; LOWER FREQUENCIES; MERGUELLIL BASIN; RADAR BACKSCATTERING; SAR IMAGES;

BACKSCATTERING; CROPS; POLARIZATION; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SENSORS; SOIL MOISTURE; VEGETATION; WATER RESOURCES;

SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR;

BACKSCATTER; BARLEY; LEAF AREA INDEX; MICROWAVE IMAGERY; MICROWAVE RADIATION; POLARIZATION; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SENSOR; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR;

MERGUELLIL BASIN; TUNISIA;

HORDEUM; TRITICUM AESTIVUM; VIRIDIPLANTAE;

EID: 84886713810     PISSN: 2150704X     EISSN: 21507058     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/2150704X.2013.842285     Document Type: Article

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