Radar Remote Sensing of Agricultural Canopies: A Review

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

Volumn 10, Issue 5, 2017, Pages 2249-2273

  Steele Dunne, Susan C ^a   McNairn, Heather ^b   Monsivais Huertero, Alejandro ^c   Judge, Jasmeet ^d   Liu, Pang Wei ^d   Papathanassiou, Kostas ^e  

^a DELFT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

^b AGRICULTURE AND AGRI FOOD CANADA   (Canada)

^c INSTITUTO POLITÉCNICO NACIONAL   (Mexico)

^d J Crayton Pruitt Family Department of Biomedical Engineering   (United States)

^e GERMAN AEROSPACE CENTER DLR   (Germany)

Author keywords

Agriculture; airborne radar; scattering; spaceborne radar; synthetic aperture radar; vegetation

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURE; AIRCRAFT RADAR EQUIPMENT; BACKSCATTERING; CLASSIFICATION (OF INFORMATION); CROPS; MOISTURE CONTROL; REMOTE SENSING; SCATTERING; SOIL MOISTURE; SOIL SURVEYS; SPACE APPLICATIONS; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR; VEGETATION;

CROP CLASSIFICATION; EMERGING APPLICATIONS; EXPERIMENTAL CAMPAIGN; RADAR REMOTE SENSING; SOIL MOISTURE MONITORING; SOIL MOISTURE RETRIEVALS; STATE OF THE ART; VEGETATION PHENOLOGY;

SPACE-BASED RADAR;

AGRICULTURAL ECOSYSTEM; AGRICULTURAL LAND; AIRBORNE SENSING; IMAGE CLASSIFICATION; RADAR; REMOTE SENSING; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR; VEGETATION COVER; VEGETATION DYNAMICS;

EID: 85009844440     PISSN: 19391404     EISSN: 21511535     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JSTARS.2016.2639043     Document Type: Review

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