[HTML][HTML] Research advances of SAR remote sensing for agriculture applications: A review

C Liu, ZX Chen, S Yun, J Chen, T Hasi… - Journal of integrative …, 2019 - Elsevier
Synthetic aperture radar (SAR) is an effective and important technique in monitoring crop
and other agricultural targets because its quality does not depend on weather conditions …

Derivation of biomass information for semi-arid areas using remote-sensing data

C Eisfelder, C Kuenzer, S Dech - International Journal of Remote …, 2012 - Taylor & Francis
The impact of changes in vegetation biomass on the global ecosystem and the future
evolution of possible climate change is of high relevance. Above-ground biomass (AGB) …

Strategies to measure soil moisture using traditional methods, automated sensors, remote sensing, and machine learning techniques: review, bibliometric analysis …

A Singh, K Gaurav, GK Sonkar, CC Lee - IEEE Access, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This review provides a detailed synthesis of various in-situ, remote sensing, and machine
learning approaches to estimate soil moisture. Bibliometric analysis of the published …

[HTML][HTML] A review of terrestrial carbon assessment methods using geo-spatial technologies with emphasis on arid lands

S Issa, B Dahy, T Ksiksi, N Saleous - Remote Sensing, 2020 - mdpi.com
Geo-spatial technologies (ie, remote sensing (RS) and Geographic Information Systems
(GIS)) offer the means to enable a rapid assessment of terrestrial carbon stock (CS) over …

Using multi-polarization C-and L-band synthetic aperture radar to estimate biomass and soil moisture of wheat fields

M Hosseini, H McNairn - International Journal of Applied Earth Observation …, 2017 - Elsevier
Biomass and soil moisture are two important parameters for agricultural crop monitoring and
yield estimation. In this study, the Water Cloud Model (WCM) was coupled with the Ulaby …

A radiative transfer model-based method for the estimation of grassland aboveground biomass

X Quan, B He, M Yebra, C Yin, Z Liao, X Zhang… - International Journal of …, 2017 - Elsevier
This paper presents a novel method to derive grassland aboveground biomass (AGB) based
on the PROSAILH (PROSPECT+ SAILH) radiative transfer model (RTM). Two variables, leaf …

The sensitivity of RADARSAT-2 polarimetric SAR data to corn and soybean leaf area index

X Jiao, H McNairn, J Shang, E Pattey, J Liu… - Canadian Journal of …, 2011 - Taylor & Francis
In this study, quadrature-polarization (quad-pol) RADARSAT-2 data at steep (25o) and
shallow (40o) incidence angles were acquired during the 2008 season, imaging 13 corn …

[HTML][HTML] A synergistic methodology for soil moisture estimation in an alpine prairie using radar and optical satellite data

B He, M Xing, X Bai - Remote Sensing, 2014 - mdpi.com
This paper presents a microwave/optical synergistic methodology to retrieve soil moisture in
an alpine prairie. The methodology adequately represents the scattering behavior of the …

Synthetic aperture radar and optical satellite data for estimating the biomass of corn

M Hosseini, H McNairn, S Mitchell… - International Journal of …, 2019 - Elsevier
Above ground biomass is an important crop biophysical parameter for monitoring crop
condition and determining crop productivity, in particular if linked with phenological growth …

[HTML][HTML] Maize leaf area index retrieval from synthetic quad pol SAR time series using the water cloud model

E Bériaux, F Waldner, F Collienne, P Bogaert… - Remote Sensing, 2015 - mdpi.com
In order to monitor crop growth along the season with synthetic aperture radar (SAR)
images, radiative transfer models were developed to retrieve key biophysical parameters …