Estimating Phenology of Agricultural Crops from Space
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This paper summarises the main results derived from a study developed under the ESA funded PolSAR-Ap project, aimed to demonstrate the contribution of SAR polarimetry in diverse Earth observation products. The specific application treated here is the retrieval of phenology of agricultural crops by exploiting C-band polarimetric images. Using a set of 20 images acquired by Radarsat-2 during the AgriSAR2009 campaign, we show the sensitivity of polarimetry for some crop types (mainly cereals) and present a number of retrieval results with simple algorithms that exhibit excellent performance for some crops, e.g. barley and wheat.
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