Estimation of agricultural and biophysical parameters of rice fields in Vietnam using X-band dual-polarization SAR

Author

Bouvet, Alexandre ; Thuy Le Toan ; Dao, Nguyen Lam

Author_Institution

Centre d´Etudes Spatiales sur la Biosphere, Toulouse, France

fYear

2014

fDate

13-18 July 2014

Firstpage

1504

Lastpage

1507

Abstract

In this study, we use time-series of X-band Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) data to monitor rice fields in the Mekong Delta, Vietnam. Ten dual-polarisation (HH&VV) images of the COSMO-SkyMed constellation are used in the third rice season of 2013, and 3 images in the first season of 2014. In 2013, the season-long comparison of backscatter and biophysical parameters measured in 40 fields allowed us to develop methods to map rice fields at both seasons and to derive the sowing date and the plant biomass at the vegetative stage in 2013.

Keywords

crops; geophysical image processing; radar imaging; radar polarimetry; remote sensing by radar; synthetic aperture radar; time series; vegetation mapping; AD 2013; AD 2014; COSMO-SkyMed constellation; HH polarisation; Mekong Delta; VV polarisation; Vietnam; X-band Synthetic Aperture Radar data; X-band dual-polarization SAR; agricultural parameters; backscatter parameters; biophysical parameters; dual-polarisation images; plant biomass; rice fields; rice season; sowing date; time-series; vegetative stage; Agriculture; Backscatter; Biomass; Monitoring; Production; Satellites; Synthetic aperture radar; Mekong Delta; X-band Synthetic Aperture Radar; rice monitoring;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium (IGARSS), 2014 IEEE International

Conference_Location

Quebec City, QC

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/IGARSS.2014.6946723

Filename

6946723