Retrieval of vegetation height in rice fields using polarimetric SAR interferometry with TanDEM-X data

Remote Sensing of Environment

Volumn 192, Issue , 2017, Pages 30-44

  Lopez Sanchez, Juan M ^a   Vicente Guijalba, Fernando ^a   Erten, Esra ^b   Campos Taberner, Manuel ^c   Garcia Haro, Francisco Javier ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALICANTE   (Spain)

^b ISTANBUL TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^c UNIVERSITY OF VALENCIA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Agriculture; Interferometry; PolInSAR; PolSAR; Rice; Synthetic aperture radar (SAR); TanDEM X; Vegetation height

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURE; INTERFEROMETRY; POLARIMETERS; VEGETATION;

POLINSAR; POLSAR; RICE; TANDEM-X; VEGETATION HEIGHT;

SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR;

AGRICULTURAL SOIL; ALGORITHM; FLOODED SOIL; GROWTH; INTERFEROMETRY; MODEL VALIDATION; PADDY FIELD; RICE; SATELLITE DATA; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR; TANDEM-X; VEGETATION COVER;

ANDALUCIA; SEVILLA; SPAIN; TRABZON [TURKEY]; TURKEY;

EID: 85012108952     PISSN: 00344257     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.rse.2017.02.004     Document Type: Article

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