Tracking crop phenological development using multi-temporal polarimetric Radarsat-2 data

Remote Sensing of Environment

Volumn 210, Issue , 2018, Pages 508-518

  Canisius, Francis ^a   Shang, Jiali ^a   Liu, Jiangui ^a   Huang, Xiaodong ^a   Ma, Baoluo ^a   Jiao, Xianfeng ^a   Geng, Xiaoyuan ^a   Kovacs, John M ^b   Walters, Dan ^b  

^a OTTAWA RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT CENTRE   (Canada)

^b NIPISSING UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Canola; Crop phenology; LAI; Plant height; Polarimetric parameters; SAR; Wheat

Indexed keywords

CULTIVATION; PLANTS (BOTANY); POLARIMETERS; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR;

C-BANDS; CANOLA; CROP PHENOLOGY; DEVELOPMENT STAGES; LAI; MULTI-TEMPORAL; PLANT HEIGHT; POLARIMETRIC PARAMETERS; POLARIMETRIC SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADARS; WHEAT;

CROPS;

CANOLA; CROP PLANT; CROP YIELD; DATA ACQUISITION; DEVELOPMENTAL STAGE; GROWTH; HEIGHT; LEAF AREA INDEX; NDVI; PHENOLOGY; RADARSAT; SATELLITE DATA; SEEDING; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR; TEMPORAL EVOLUTION; WHEAT;

CANADA; ONTARIO [CANADA];

BRASSICA NAPUS; BRASSICA NAPUS VAR. NAPUS; TRITICUM; TRITICUM AESTIVUM;

EID: 85029765557     PISSN: 00344257     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.rse.2017.07.031     Document Type: Article

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