Complementarity of two rice mapping approaches: Characterizing strata mapped by hypertemporal MODIS and rice paddy identification using multitemporal SAR

Remote Sensing

Volumn 6, Issue 12, 2014, Pages 12789-12814

  Asilo, Sonia ^a,b   de Bie, Kees ^a   Skidmore, Andrew ^a   Nelson, Andrew ^b   Barbieri, Massimo ^c   Maunahan, Aileen ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TWENTE   (Netherlands)

^b INTERNATIONAL RICE RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Philippines)

^c Sarmap ^*  (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Backscatter; Characterization; COSMO SkyMed; Crop calendars; Flooding; MODIS; Phenology; Rice; TerraSAR X; X band

Indexed keywords

EID: 84920076645     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20724292     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/rs61212789     Document Type: Article

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