“Detection of Crop Seeding and Harvest through Analysis of Time-Series Sentinel-1 Interferometric SAR Data”, Jiali Shang, Jiangui Liu, Valentin Poncos, Xiaoyuan Geng, Budong Qian, Qihao Chen, Taifeng Dong, Dan Macdonald, Tim Martin, John Kovacs, Dan Walters, Journal of Remote Sensing, ISSN 2072-4292, in print, March 2020
In this study, the capability of C-band SAR data for detecting crop seeding and harvest events was explored. The study was conducted for the 2019 growing season in Temiskaming Shores, an agricultural area in Northern Ontario, Canada. Time-series SAR data acquired by Sentinel-1 constellation with the interferometric wide (IW) mode with dual polarizations were obtained. Interferometric SAR (InSAR) processing was conducted to derive coherence between each pair of SAR images acquired consecutively in time throughout the year. Crop seeding and harvest dates were determined by analyzing the time-series InSAR coherence and SAR backscattering