Evaluating the Cloude-Pottier and Freeman-Durden scattering decompositions for distinguishing between unharvested and post-harvest agricultural fields

Canadian Journal of Remote Sensing

Volumn 39, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 318-327

  Adams, Justin R ^a,b   Rowlandson, Tracy L ^a   McKeown, Steven J ^a   Berg, Aaron A ^a   McNairn, Heather ^b   Sweeney, Stewart J ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GUELPH   (Canada)

^b AGRICULTURE AND AGRI FOOD CANADA   (Canada)

^c FOOD AND RURAL AFFAIRS   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL FIELDS; AGRICULTURAL LAND; CONSERVATION TILLAGE; CONVENTIONAL TILLAGE; ONTARIO , CANADA; RADARSAT-2 IMAGES; ROUGH SURFACE SCATTERING; SCATTERING MECHANISMS;

AGRICULTURAL MACHINERY; AGRICULTURAL WASTES; CROPS; SCATTERING; SOIL CONSERVATION; SURFACE MEASUREMENT; SURFACE ROUGHNESS;

HARVESTING;

EID: 84888318185     PISSN: 07038992     EISSN: 17127971     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5589/m13-040     Document Type: Article

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