APPLICATIONS OF REMOTE SENSING IN THE MONITORING OF RICE CROPS.pdf

Journal - The Institution of Engineers, Malaysia (Vol. 67, No. 4, December 2006) 2 APPLICATIONS OFREMOTE SENSING IN THE MONITORING OFRICE CROPS Tan Chue Poh, Koay Jun Yi, Lim Ka Sing, Saiful Bahari, Ewe Hong Tatand Chuah Hean Teik Faculty of Engineering, Multimedia University, 63100 Cyberjaya, Selangor Malaysia Center For Remote Sensing (MACRES), No 13, Jalan Tun Ismail, 50480 Kuala Lumpur E-mail: ******@ ABSTRACT Remotesensing,whichisthescienceofacquiringinformationre g a rdingtheearth'ssurfacewithoutphysicalcontact,ing i n c , onsatelliteimageshaveshownthatricefieldsproducedifferentbrightnesspatternsatdifferentplantgrowthstages,allowingthe ,thereisaneedforfurtherre s e a rchintounderstandingtheinteractionsbetweenelectro m a g n e t i c thatcanbeverifiedbyfieldmeasurementstoenablecorrectinterpretationofremotesensingdataandricegrowthmonitoringby c ricegrowthcanbemonitored,acomprehensivestudyofthetheoreticalscatteringmodeliscrucialtoensurecorre