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Environmental Sciences

D-Index
60
Citations
13785
World Ranking
2913
National Ranking
123

Best Publications

  • Validation of SMAP surface soil moisture products with core validation sites

    A. Colliander;T.J. Jackson;R. Bindlish;S. Chan

  • Assessment of the SMAP Passive Soil Moisture Product

    Steven K. Chan;Rajat Bindlish;Peggy E. O'Neill;Eni Njoku

  • Assessment of RapidEye vegetation indices for estimation of leaf area index and biomass in corn and soybean crops

    Angela Kross;Heather McNairn;David Lapen;Mark Sunohara

  • Development and assessment of the SMAP enhanced passive soil moisture product

    S. K. Chan;R. Bindlish;P. O'Neill;T. Jackson

  • Integration of optical and Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) imagery for delivering operational annual crop inventories

    Heather McNairn;Catherine Champagne;Jiali Shang;Delmar Holmstrom

  • The application of C-band polarimetric SAR for agriculture: a review

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  • Radar Remote Sensing of Agricultural Canopies: A Review

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  • Dual polarimetric radar vegetation index for crop growth monitoring using sentinel-1 SAR data

    Dipankar Mandal;Vineet Kumar;Vineet Kumar;Debanshu Ratha;Subhadip Dey

  • Assessment of the SMAP Level-4 surface and root-zone soil moisture product using in situ measurements

    Rolf H. Reichle;Gabrielle J. M. De Lannoy;Qing Liu;Joseph V. Ardizzone

  • Compact polarimetry overview and applications assessment

    F. J. Charbonneau;B. Brisco;R. K. Raney;H. McNairn

  • The Soil Moisture Active Passive Validation Experiment 2012 (SMAPVEX12): Prelaunch Calibration and Validation of the SMAP Soil Moisture Algorithms

    Heather McNairn;Thomas J. Jackson;Grant Wiseman;Stephane Belair

  • The Contribution of ALOS PALSAR Multipolarization and Polarimetric Data to Crop Classification

    H. McNairn;Jiali Shang;Xianfeng Jiao;C. Champagne

  • RADARSAT-2 Polarimetric SAR Response to Crop Biomass for Agricultural Production Monitoring

    Grant Wiseman;Heather McNairn;Saeid Homayouni;Jiali Shang

  • Estimating and mapping crop residues cover on agricultural lands using hyperspectral and IKONOS data

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  • Estimating crop stresses, aboveground dry biomass and yield of corn using multi-temporal optical data combined with a radiation use efficiency model

    Jiangui Liu;Elizabeth Pattey;John R. Miller;Heather McNairn

  • Object-oriented crop mapping and monitoring using multi-temporal polarimetric RADARSAT-2 data

    Xianfeng Jiao;John M. Kovacs;Jiali Shang;Heather McNairn

  • Mapping Corn Residue Cover on Agricultural Fields in Oxford County, Ontario, Using Thematic Mapper

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  • Precision Agriculture and the Role of Remote Sensing: A Review

    B. Brisco;R.J. Brown;T. Hirose;H. McNairn

  • Early season monitoring of corn and soybeans with TerraSAR-X and RADARSAT-2

    Heather McNairn;Angela Kross;David Lapen;R. Caves

  • Validation of Soil Moisture Data Products From the NASA SMAP Mission

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Frequent Co-Authors

Michael H. Cosh
Michael H. Cosh Agricultural Research Service
Aaron A. Berg
Aaron A. Berg University of Guelph
Andreas Colliander
Andreas Colliander California Institute of Technology
Thomas J. Jackson
Thomas J. Jackson Agricultural Research Service
Jiali Shang
Jiali Shang Agriculture and Agriculture-Food Canada
Todd G. Caldwell
Todd G. Caldwell United States Geological Survey
José Martínez-Fernández
José Martínez-Fernández University of Salamanca
Simon Yueh
Simon Yueh Jet Propulsion Lab
Rajat Bindlish
Rajat Bindlish Goddard Space Flight Center
David D. Bosch
David D. Bosch Agricultural Research Service

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