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Performance Evaluation Of Uavsar And Simulated Nisar Data For Crop/Noncrop Classification Over Stoneville, Ms, Simon Kraatz, S. Rose, M. H. Cosh, N. Torbick, X. Huang, P. Siquiera

Electrical and Computer Engineering Faculty Publication Series

Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) data are well-suited for change detection over agricultural fields, owing to high spatiotemporal resolution and sensitivity to soil and vegetation. The goal of this work is to evaluate the science algorithm for the NASA ISRO SAR (NISAR) Cropland Area product using data collected by NASA's airborne Uninhabited Aerial Vehicle SAR (UAVSAR) platform and the simulated NISAR data derived from it. This study uses mode 129, which is to be used for global-scale mapping. The mode consists of an upper (129A) and lower band (129B), respectively having bandwidths of 20 and 5 MHz. This work uses 129A …