Print Email Facebook Twitter Radar Remote Sensing of Agricultural Canopies Title Radar Remote Sensing of Agricultural Canopies: A Review Author Steele-Dunne, S.C. (TU Delft Water Resources) McNairn, Heather (Science and Technology Branch) Monsivais-Huertero, Alejandro (National Polytechnic Institute) Judge, Jasmeet (University of Florida) Liu, Pang Wei (University of Florida) Papathanassiou, Kostas (Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt e.V. (DLR)) Date 2017-05-01 Abstract Observations from spaceborne radar contain considerable information about vegetation dynamics.The ability to extract this information could lead to improved soil moisture retrievals and the increased capacity to monitor vegetation phenology and water stress using radar data.The purpose of this review paper is to provide an overview of the current state of knowledge with respect to backscatter from vegetated (agricultural) landscapes and to identify opportunities and challenges in this domain.Much of our understanding of vegetation backscatter from agricultural canopies stems from SAR studies to perform field-scale classification and monitoring.Hence, SAR applications, theory, and applications are considered here too.An overview will be provided of the knowledge generated from ground-based and airborne experimental campaigns that contributed to the development of crop classification, crop monitoring, and soil moisture monitoring applications.A description of the current vegetation modeling approaches will be given.A review of current applications of spaceborne radar will be used to illustrate the current state of the art in terms of data utilization.Finally, emerging applications, opportunities and challenges will be identified and discussed.Improved representation of vegetation phenology and water dynamics will be identified as essential to improve soil moisture retrievals, crop monitoring, and for the development of emerging drought/water stress applications. Subject Agricultureairborne radarscatteringspaceborne radarsynthetic aperture radarvegetation To reference this document use: http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:bba98fc4-8ec5-4c88-b698-6d98b9b2e29a DOI https://doi.org/10.1109/JSTARS.2016.2639043 ISSN 1939-1404 Source IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and Remote Sensing, 10 (5), 2249-2273 Part of collection Institutional Repository Document type review Rights © 2017 S.C. Steele-Dunne, Heather McNairn, Alejandro Monsivais-Huertero, Jasmeet Judge, Pang Wei Liu, Kostas Papathanassiou Files PDF FINAL_VERSION1.pdf 1.95 MB Close viewer /islandora/object/uuid:bba98fc4-8ec5-4c88-b698-6d98b9b2e29a/datastream/OBJ/view