Title: Rice Crop Monitoring by Fusing Microwave and Optical Satellite Data 

Kei Oyoshi, Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency, Earth Observation Research Center, Tsukuba, Ibaraki, Japan, Wataru Takeuchi, University of Tokyo, Institute of Industrial Science, Bunkyo-ku, Japan, Thuy LE Toan, Centre d'Etudes Spatiales de la Biosphere, Toulouse Cedex 9, France and Shinichi Sobue, Remote Sensing Technology Center of Japan, Tokyo, Japan