Observations of Cutting Practices in Agricultural Grasslands Using Polarimetric SAR

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

Volumn 9, Issue 4, 2016, Pages 1382-1396

  Voormansik, Kaupo ^a,b   Jagdhuber, Thomas ^c   Zalite, Karlis ^a,b,d,e   Noorma, Mart ^a,d   Hajnsek, Irena ^c,f  

^a TARTU OBSERVATORY   (Estonia)

^b AALTO UNIVERSITY   (Finland)

^c GERMAN AEROSPACE CENTER DLR   (Germany)

^d UNIVERSITY OF TARTU   (Estonia)

^e VENTSPILS UNIVERSITY COLLEGE   (Latvia)

^f ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

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

Indexed keywords

BACKSCATTERING; COHERENT SCATTERING; ENTROPY; SATELLITES; SOIL MOISTURE; SURVEYS; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR; VEGETATION;

AGRICULTURAL GRASSLANDS; CUTTING PRACTICES; FIELD OBSERVATIONS; POLARIMETRIC PARAMETERS; POLARIMETRIC SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADARS; SCATTERING ENTROPY; SHORTER WAVELENGTH; VEGETATIVE SEASONS;

POLARIMETERS;

AGRICULTURAL LAND; GRASSLAND; RADARSAT; REMOTE SENSING; SATELLITE DATA; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR;

ESTONIA;

EID: 84951336037     PISSN: 19391404     EISSN: 21511535     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JSTARS.2015.2503773     Document Type: Article

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