An Integrated Surface Parameter Inversion Scheme over Agricultural Fields at Early Growing Stages by Means of C-Band Polarimetric RADARSAT-2 Imagery

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 54, Issue 5, 2016, Pages 2510-2528

  Huang, Xiaodong ^a   Wang, Jinfei ^a   Shang, Jiali ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN ONTARIO   (Canada)

^b AGRICULTURE AND AGRI FOOD CANADA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Agriculture; polarimetric synthetic aperture radar (PolSAR); RADARSAT 2; surface parameters

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL WASTES; AGRICULTURE; CROPS; INTEGRAL EQUATIONS; MEAN SQUARE ERROR; POLARIMETERS; SOIL MOISTURE; SURFACE ROUGHNESS; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR; VEGETATION;

ADAPTIVE VOLUME SCATTERING MODELS; AGRICULTURAL FIELDS; INTEGRAL EQUATION MODELS; POLARIMETRIC SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADARS; RADARSAT-2; ROOT MEAN SQUARE ERRORS; SURFACE PARAMETER; VOLUMETRIC SOIL MOISTURES;

CULTIVATION;

AGRICULTURAL LAND; AGRICULTURAL SOIL; BARE SOIL; CROP RESIDUE; MODEL VALIDATION; RADARSAT; RESEARCH WORK; SATELLITE DATA; SATELLITE IMAGERY; SCATTERING; SOIL MOISTURE; SURFACE ROUGHNESS; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR; VEGETATION COVER;

EID: 84970897542     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TGRS.2015.2502600     Document Type: Article

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