A processing and software system for rice crop inventory using multi-date RADARSAT ScanSAR data

Citation
M. Chakraborty et S. Panigrahy, A processing and software system for rice crop inventory using multi-date RADARSAT ScanSAR data, ISPRS J PH, 55(2), 2000, pp. 119-128
Citations number
14
Categorie Soggetti
Optics & Acoustics
Journal title
ISPRS JOURNAL OF PHOTOGRAMMETRY AND REMOTE SENSING
ISSN journal
09242716 → ACNP
Volume
55
Issue
2
Year of publication
2000
Pages
119 - 128
Database
ISI
SICI code
0924-2716(200006)55:2<119:APASSF>2.0.ZU;2-S
Abstract
An operational crop survey program requires standardised procedures and sof tware packages to meet the specified targets of timeliness and accuracy of estimates. Currently, the focus is to include Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR ) data in such a program, as these data are available from a number of sens ors. A procedure has been developed to use multi-date SAR data for rice cro p inventory. The steps were packaged together for ease-of-use and with mini mal user interaction. The package, SARCROPS, is built around the EASI/PACE software. It is, at present, tuned for RADARSAT ScanSAR data. The package w as used during the 1998-1999 and 1999-2000 seasons to estimate the rice are a at state level in India with the participation of a number of interdiscip linary users. Around 45 and 89 scenes of ScanSAR data were used during thes e two seasons, respectively. This paper reports the details of the SARCROPS processing chain. (C) 2000 Elsevier Science B.V. All rights reserved.