Title :
The value of SAR Multi-polarization data in delivering annual crop inventories
Author :
McNairn, Heather ; Champagne, Catherine ; Shang, Jiali
Author_Institution :
Agric. & Agri-Food Canada, Ottawa
Abstract :
The outcome of a multi-year project carried out across sites within Canada has been the development of a method to deliver crop inventories using the integration of SAR and optical satellite data. Although multi-temporal optical imagery can classify crops at the target accuracy, SAR data will be valuable in boosting accuracies and ensuring operational delivery of this annual inventory.
Keywords :
agriculture; crops; geophysical techniques; radar polarimetry; remote sensing by radar; spaceborne radar; synthetic aperture radar; Canada; SAR multipolarization data; SAR satellite data; annual crop inventory; optical satellite data; Adaptive optics; Agriculture; Clouds; Crops; Optical sensors; Remote sensing; Rivers; Robustness; Satellites; Synthetic aperture radar; ASAR; RADARSAT; crop classification;
Conference_Titel :
Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium, 2007. IGARSS 2007. IEEE International
Conference_Location :
Barcelona
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4244-1211-2
Electronic_ISBN :
978-1-4244-1212-9
DOI :
10.1109/IGARSS.2007.4423067
