C-band SAR data for mapping crops dominated by surface or volume scattering

IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Letters

Volumn 11, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 384-388

  Satalino, Giuseppe ^a   Balenzano, Anna ^a   Mattia, Francesco ^a   Davidson, Malcolm W J ^b  

^a INSTITUTE OF INTELLIGENT SYSTEMS FOR AUTOMATION   (Italy)

^b EUROPEAN SPACE AGENCY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Crop classification; Cross polarized synthetic aperture radar (SAR) data; Sentinel 1 (S 1); Synthetic aperture radar (SAR)

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; CROPS; ITERATIVE METHODS; SCATTERING; SURFACE SCATTERING;

ADAPTIVE THRESHOLDING; AGRICULTURAL CROPS; CLASSIFICATION ALGORITHM; CLASSIFICATION METHODS; CROP CLASSIFICATION; CROSS-POLARIZED; ITERATIVE SOLUTIONS; SENTINEL-1;

SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR;

EID: 84896405353     PISSN: 1545598X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/LGRS.2013.2263034     Document Type: Article

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