A Complete Procedure for Crop Phenology Estimation with PolSAR Data Based on the Complex Wishart Classifier

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 54, Issue 11, 2016, Pages 6505-6515

  Mascolo, Lucio ^a   Lopez Sanchez, Juan M ^b   Vicente Guijalba, Fernando ^a   Nunziata, Ferdinando ^b   Migliaccio, Maurizio ^a   Mazzarella, Giuseppe ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NAPLES PARTHENOPE   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ALICANTE   (Spain)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CAGLIARI   (Italy)

Author keywords

Agriculture; classification; phenology; polarimetry; synthetic aperture radar (SAR)

Indexed keywords

COVARIANCE MATRIX; POLARIMETERS; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR; TIME SERIES;

AGRICULTURAL CROPS; COVARIANCE MATRICES; OVERALL ACCURACIES; PHENOLOGICAL STAGE; POLARIMETRIC SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADARS; RADARSAT-2 IMAGES; RETRIEVAL ACCURACY; STATE-OF-THE-ART METHODS;

CROPS;

CROP PLANT; ESTIMATION METHOD; FARMING SYSTEM; GROWTH RATE; IMAGE CLASSIFICATION; NUMERICAL METHOD; PHENOLOGY; RADARSAT; SATELLITE DATA; SATELLITE SENSOR; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR;

EID: 84978828694     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TGRS.2016.2585744     Document Type: Article

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