부산대학교 도서관

This study focuses on the polarimetric radar backscatter responses observed for different agricultural land cover types early during the growing season, in two well-separated test sites. These were Oltrepo Pavese in northern Italy and Oberpfaffenhofen in southern Germany. Results show that L-band was better at discriminating between agricultural land cover types than C-band. However effects due to soil roughness and those due to vegetation in the fields were difficult to separate using only backscatter amplitude information. Polarimetric information expressed through the HH-VV correlation coefficients and as polarimetric signatures however, provided additional information on the backscatter mechanisms for various land cover types and allowed for the separation of vegetation and soil effects.