Influence of incidence angle on the coherent copolar polarimetric response of rice at X-Band

IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Letters

Volumn 12, Issue 2, 2015, Pages 249-253

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

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALICANTE   (Spain)

^b AEL Consultants   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

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

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURE; CULTIVATION; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR;

ACQUISITION GEOMETRY; INCIDENCE ANGLES; MONITORING PURPOSE; PHYSICAL INTERPRETATION; RICE; RICE FIELDS; SCATTERING MECHANISMS; TERRASAR-X;

POLARIMETERS;

EID: 84906949189     PISSN: 1545598X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/LGRS.2014.2334371     Document Type: Article

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