Radar remote sensing of agricultural canopies: A review

SC Steele-Dunne, H McNairn… - IEEE Journal of …, 2017 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Observations from spaceborne radar contain considerable information about vegetation
dynamics. The ability to extract this information could lead to improved soil moisture …

Interacting effects of leaf water potential and biomass on vegetation optical depth

M Momen, JD Wood, KA Novick… - Journal of …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
Remotely sensed microwave observations of vegetation optical depth (VOD) have been
widely used for examining vegetation responses to climate. Nevertheless, the relative …

Global estimation of above-ground biomass from spaceborne C-band scatterometer observations aided by LiDAR metrics of vegetation structure

M Santoro, O Cartus, U Wegmüller, S Besnard… - Remote Sensing of …, 2022 - Elsevier
The backscattered power recorded by a spaceborne scatterometer operating at C-band is
sensitive to land surface parameters and is operationally used by some global remote …

Near real-time irrigation detection at plot scale using sentinel-1 data

H Bazzi, N Baghdadi, I Fayad, M Zribi, H Belhouchette… - Remote Sensing, 2020 - mdpi.com
In the context of monitoring and assessment of water consumption in the agricultural sector,
the objective of this study is to build an operational approach capable of detecting irrigation …

Response of subdaily L-band backscatter to internal and surface canopy water dynamics

PC Vermunt, S Khabbazan… - … on Geoscience and …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The latest developments in radar mission concepts suggest that subdaily synthetic aperture
radar will become available in the next decades. The goal of this study was to demonstrate …

[HTML][HTML] Pixel-level rice planting information monitoring in Fujin City based on time-series SAR imagery

J Pang, R Zhang, B Yu, M Liao, J Lv, L Xie, S Li… - International Journal of …, 2021 - Elsevier
As the core issues of agricultural remote sensing, the mapping of crop planting and dynamic
monitoring of crop growth in the urban area have always been limited by complex climatic …

Impact of diurnal variation in vegetation water content on radar backscatter from maize during water stress

T van Emmerik, SC Steele-Dunne… - … on Geoscience and …, 2015 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Microwave backscatter from vegetated surfaces is influenced by vegetation structure and
vegetation water content (VWC), which varies with meteorological conditions and moisture …

Active microwave observations of diurnal and seasonal variations of canopy water content across the humid African tropical forests

AG Konings, Y Yu, L Xu, Y Yang… - Geophysical …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
A higher frequency of severe droughts under warmer temperatures is expected to lead to
large impacts on global water and carbon fluxes and on vegetation cover—including …

Potential of Sentinel-1 SAR to assess damage in drought-affected temperate deciduous broadleaf forests

K Schellenberg, T Jagdhuber, M Zehner, S Hese… - Remote Sensing, 2023 - mdpi.com
Understanding forest decline under drought pressure is receiving research attention due to
the increasing frequency of large-scale heat waves and massive tree mortality events …

Using diurnal variation in backscatter to detect vegetation water stress

SC Steele-Dunne, J Friesen… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2012 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
A difference has been detected between the C-band wind scatterometer measurements from
the morning (descending) and evening (ascending) passes of the European Remote …