Retrieval of agricultural crop height from space: A comparison of SAR techniques

Remote Sensing of Environment

Volumn 187, Issue , 2016, Pages 130-144

  Erten, Esra ^a   Lopez Sanchez, Juan M ^b   Yuzugullu, Onur ^c   Hajnsek, Irena ^c,d  

^a ISTANBUL TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ALICANTE   (Spain)

^c ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^d GERMAN AEROSPACE CENTER DLR   (Germany)

Author keywords

Agriculture; Height estimation; Interferometry; Metamodel; PolInSAR; PolSAR; Rice; Synthetic Aperture Radar; TanDEM X

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURE; BACKSCATTERING; CROPS; CULTIVATION; INTERFEROMETRY; POLARIMETERS; RADAR; RADAR IMAGING; RADIATIVE TRANSFER; SPACE-BASED RADAR; VEGETATION;

HEIGHT ESTIMATION; META MODEL; POLINSAR; POLSAR; RICE; TANDEM-X;

SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR;

BACKSCATTER; CROP PLANT; DIGITAL ELEVATION MODEL; GROWTH RATE; IN SITU MEASUREMENT; PADDY FIELD; POLARIZATION; RADAR INTERFEROMETRY; RICE; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR; TANDEM-X; VEGETATION MAPPING;

TURKEY;

EID: 84991593765     PISSN: 00344257     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.rse.2016.10.007     Document Type: Article

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