Retrieval of wheat growth parameters with radar vegetation indices

IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Letters

Volumn 11, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 808-812

  Kim, Yihyun ^a   Jackson, Thomas ^b   Bindlish, Rajat ^b   Hong, Sukyoung ^a   Jung, Gunho ^a   Lee, Kyuongdo ^a  

^a National Institute of Animal Science   (South Korea)

^b AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH SERVICE   (United States)

Author keywords

Backscattering coefficients; fresh weight; polarimetric scatterometer; radar vegetation index (RVI); vegetation water content (VWC)

Indexed keywords

BACKSCATTERING COEFFICIENTS; FRESH WEIGHT; SCATTEROMETERS; VEGETATION INDEX; VEGETATION WATER CONTENTS (VWC);

BACKSCATTERING; CROPS; METEOROLOGICAL INSTRUMENTS; POLARIMETERS; RADAR; SOIL MOISTURE;

VEGETATION;

EID: 84890566305     PISSN: 1545598X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/LGRS.2013.2279255     Document Type: Article

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