-The script is applicable to monitor crop condition over the global scale and invariant to crop types. The vegetation indices developed here utilize the GRD product. First, the VH/VV ratio is calulated and denoted as q. Then an equivalent to the degree of polarization (m) is derived from q, as (1-q)/(1+q). The m factor ranges between 0 and 1. For low vegetation conditions, the co-pol backscatter will be high and the cross-pol backscatter is low (i.e., q->0). As a consequence, one can observe that, for bare field conditions m is high, and decreases gradually with an increase in vegetation canopy density.
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