Towards a detection of grassland cutting practices with dual polarimetric terraSAR-X data

International Journal of Remote Sensing

Volumn 34, Issue 22, 2013, Pages 8081-8103

  Voormansik, Kaupo ^a,b   Jagdhuber, Thomas ^c   Olesk, Aire ^a,b   Hajnsek, Irena ^c,d   Papathanassiou, Konstantinos P ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TARTU   (Estonia)

^b TARTU OBSERVATORY   (Estonia)

^c GERMAN AEROSPACE CENTER DLR   (Germany)

^d ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACKSCATTERING; RADAR MEASUREMENT; SATELLITES; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR;

A-PARTICLES; BALTIC SEA COAST; CUTTING PRACTICES; DUAL-POLARIZATIONS; IN-SITU MEASUREMENT; POLARIMETRIC ENTROPY; POLARIMETRIC SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADARS; TERRASAR-X;

POLARIMETERS;

DETECTION METHOD; GRASSLAND; RADAR IMAGERY; REMOTE SENSING; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR; TERRASAR-X;

ESTONIA;

EID: 84896266093     PISSN: 01431161     EISSN: 13665901     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/01431161.2013.829593     Document Type: Article

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