Polarimetric response of rice fields at C-band: Analysis and phenology retrieval

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 52, Issue 5, 2014, Pages 2977-2993

  Lopez Sanchez, Juan M ^a   Vicente Guijalba, Fernando ^a   Ballester Berman, J David ^a   Cloude, Shane R ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALICANTE   (Spain)

^b Applied Electromagnetic Consultants ^*  (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Agriculture; phenology; polarimetry; rice; synthetic aperture radar (SAR)

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURE; ALGORITHMS; BIOLOGY; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR;

AUXILIARY INFORMATION; PHENOLOGICAL STAGE; PHENOLOGY; RADARSAT-2 IMAGES; RETRIEVAL ALGORITHMS; RICE; SATELLITE ACQUISITION; SCATTERING MECHANISMS;

POLARIMETERS;

ALGORITHM; BACKSCATTER; DATA SET; IMAGE ANALYSIS; PADDY FIELD; PHENOLOGY; POLARIZATION; RADARSAT;

ANDALUCIA; SEVILLA; SEVILLE; SPAIN;

EID: 84896316203     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TGRS.2013.2268319     Document Type: Article

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