Monitoring of Agricultural Grasslands with Time Series of X-Band Repeat-Pass Interferometric SAR

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

Volumn 9, Issue 8, 2016, Pages 3687-3697

  Zalite, Karlis ^a,b,c,d   Antropov, Oleg ^d,e   Praks, Jaan ^e   Voormansik, Kaupo ^a,e   Noorma, Mart ^a,b  

^a TARTU OBSERVATORY   (Estonia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TARTU   (Estonia)

^c VENTSPILS UNIVERSITY COLLEGE   (Latvia)

^d AALTO UNIVERSITY   (Finland)

^e VTT TECHNICAL RESEARCH CENTRE OF FINLAND   (Finland)

Author keywords

Agriculture; grasslands; interferometric coherence; repeat pass interferometry; synthetic aperture radar (SAR)

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURE; BACKSCATTERING; BIOMASS; INTERFEROMETRY; SOIL MOISTURE; TIME SERIES; VEGETATION;

ABOVE GROUND BIOMASS; AGRICULTURAL GRASSLANDS; BACKSCATTERING COEFFICIENTS; FARMING ACTIVITIES; INTERFEROMETRIC COHERENCE; INTERFEROMETRIC SAR; NEGATIVE CORRELATION; STRONG CORRELATION;

SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR;

ABOVEGROUND BIOMASS; AGRICULTURAL LAND; BACKSCATTER; COSMO-SKYMED; GRASSLAND; INTERFEROMETRY; MONITORING; MOWING; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR; TIME SERIES;

EID: 84945333599     PISSN: 19391404     EISSN: 21511535     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JSTARS.2015.2478120     Document Type: Article

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