Understanding the temporal behavior of crops using Sentinel-1 and Sentinel-2-like data for agricultural applications

Remote Sensing of Environment

Volumn 199, Issue , 2017, Pages 415-426

  Veloso, Amanda ^a   Mermoz, Stéphane ^a   Bouvet, Alexandre ^a   Le Toan, Thuy ^a   Planells, Milena ^a   Dejoux, Jean François ^a   Ceschia, Eric ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE TOULOUSE   (France)

Author keywords

Crops; Multi temporal Sentinel 1 data; Optical data; Remote sensing

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURE; CLIMATE CHANGE; CROPS; FOOD SUPPLY; RADAR; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR;

BIOPHYSICAL PARAMETERS; ENVIRONMENTAL CONDITIONS; MANAGEMENT PRACTICES; NDVI TEMPORAL PROFILES; OPERATIONAL MONITORING; OPTICAL DATA; SENTINEL-1; TEMPORAL TRAJECTORIES;

REMOTE SENSING;

BACKSCATTER; BIOPHYSICS; CLIMATE CHANGE; CROP PLANT; DATA SET; ENVIRONMENTAL CONDITIONS; NDVI; OPTICAL METHOD; RADAR ALTIMETRY; REMOTE SENSING; SATELLITE DATA; SENTINEL; TEMPORAL ANALYSIS;

FRANCE;

BRASSICA NAPUS; GLYCINE MAX; HELIANTHUS; TRITICUM AESTIVUM; ZEA MAYS;

EID: 85026740667     PISSN: 00344257     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.rse.2017.07.015     Document Type: Article

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