The sensitivity of cosmo-skymed backscatter to agricultural crop type and vegetation parameters

IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and Remote Sensing

Volumn 7, Issue 7, 2014, Pages 2856-2868

  Paloscia, Simonetta ^a   Santi, Emanuele ^a   Fontanelli, Giacomo ^a   Montomoli, Francesco ^a   Brogioni, Marco ^a   MacElloni, Giovanni ^a   Pampaloni, Paolo ^a   Pettinato, Simone ^a  

^a CNR   (Italy)

Author keywords

Broad leaf crops; COSMO SkyMed (CSK); crop biomass; narrow leaf crops; radiative transfer model; vegetation parameters; X band.

Indexed keywords

BACKSCATTERING; BIOMASS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CROPS; RADIATIVE TRANSFER; SOILS; SURFACE ROUGHNESS; WATER CONTENT;

ADVANCED INTEGRAL EQUATIONS; COSMO-SKYMED (CSK); EXPERIMENTAL CAMPAIGN; RADIATIVE TRANSFER MODEL; VEGETATION COMPONENTS; VEGETATION PARAMETERS; VEGETATION WATER CONTENT; X-BAND;

VEGETATION;

HELIANTHUS; TRITICUM AESTIVUM;

EID: 84906860892     PISSN: 19391404     EISSN: 21511535     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JSTARS.2014.2345475     Document Type: Article

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