A review of multitemporal synthetic aperture radar (SAR) for crop monitoring

Remote Sensing and Digital Image Processing

Volumn 20, Issue , 2016, Pages 317-340

  McNairn, Heather ^a   Shang, Jiali ^a  

^a AGRICULTURE AND AGRI FOOD CANADA   (Canada)

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EID: 85009380896     PISSN: 15673200     EISSN: 22151842     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-47037-5_15     Document Type: Chapter

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