Abstract
This paper presents the results of monitoring the growth of crop vegetation using multi-temporal TerraSAR-X data. TerraSAR-X HH/VV images were collected in this study, and the temporal responses to the agricultural crops including beans, beet, maize and potato were analyzed using sigma nought. The crop height and canopy cover were measured during the data acquisition. For beans and beet, strong relationships between the sigma naught and crop height or canopy cover were observed. These results confirm that X-band SAR data have great potential for developing operational systems to monitor crop vegetation.
