Polarization Impact in TanDEM-X Data over Vertical-Oriented Vegetation: The Paddy-Rice Case Study

IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Letters

Volumn 12, Issue 7, 2015, Pages 1501-1505

  Erten, Esra ^a   Rossi, Cristian ^b   Yüzügüllü, Onur ^c  

^a ISTANBUL TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^b GERMAN AEROSPACE CENTER DLR   (Germany)

^c ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Agriculture; copolar phase difference (CPD); polarimetry; synthetic aperture radar (SAR); TanDEM X; X Band

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURE; POLARIMETERS; POLARIZATION; RADAR; VEGETATION;

ORIENTED STRUCTURE; PHASE DIFFERENCE; PHYSICAL INTERACTIONS; REPRODUCTIVE STAGE; SIGNAL POLARIZATION; TANDEM-X; VEGETATION HEIGHT; X BANDS;

SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR;

EID: 85028225676     PISSN: 1545598X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/LGRS.2015.2410339     Document Type: Article

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