Sensitivity study of radarsat-2 polarimetric SAR to crop height and fractional vegetation cover of corn and wheat

International Journal of Remote Sensing

Volumn 39, Issue 5, 2018, Pages 1475-1490

  Liao, Chunhua ^a   Wang, Jinfei ^a   Shang, Jiali ^b   Huang, Xiaodong ^a   Liu, Jiangui ^b   Huffman, Ted ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN ONTARIO   (Canada)

^b AGRICULTURE AND AGRI FOOD CANADA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CROPS; POLARIMETERS; VEGETATION;

FRACTIONAL VEGETATION COVER; NEGATIVE CORRELATION; ONTARIO , CANADA; POLARIMETRIC SAR; POLARIMETRIC SAR DATA; POLARIMETRIC SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADARS; SENSITIVITY STUDIES; VEGETATION CANOPY;

SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR;

CROP; DATA ACQUISITION; HEIGHT DETERMINATION; IN SITU MEASUREMENT; MAIZE; PHENOLOGY; RADARSAT; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR; VEGETATION COVER; WHEAT;

CANADA; ONTARIO [CANADA];

TRITICUM AESTIVUM; ZEA MAYS;

EID: 85046883184     PISSN: 01431161     EISSN: 13665901     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/01431161.2017.1407046     Document Type: Article

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