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Results showed that after a mowing event, median VH (vertical transmit, horizontal receive) and VV (vertical transmit, vertical receive) polarisation coherence values were statistically significantly higher than those from before the event. The shorter the time interval after the mowing event and the first interferometric acquisition, the higher the coherence. The coherence tended to stay higher, even 24 to 36 days after a mowing event. Precipitation caused the coherence to decrease, impeding the detection of a mowing event. Given the three analysed acquisition geometries, it was concluded that afternoon acquisitions and steeper incidence angles were more useful in the context of this study. In the case of morning acquisitions, dew might have caused a decrease of coherence for mowed and unmowed grasslands. Additionally, an increase of coherence after a mowing event was not evident during the rapid growth phase, due to the 12-day separation between the interferometric acquisitions. In future studies, six-day pairs utilising Sentinel-1A and 1B acquisitions should be considered.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/rs8100802","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2016,9,27]],"date-time":"2016-09-27T10:14:11Z","timestamp":1474971251000},"page":"802","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":91,"title":["Relating Sentinel-1 Interferometric Coherence to Mowing Events on Grasslands"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"8","author":[{"given":"Tanel","family":"Tamm","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Geography, University of Tartu, Vanemuise 46, 51014 Tartu, Estonia"},{"name":"KappaZeta Ltd., M\u00e4eallika, 71508 Suure-Jaani, Estonia"}]},{"given":"Karlis","family":"Zalite","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"KappaZeta Ltd., M\u00e4eallika, 71508 Suure-Jaani, Estonia"},{"name":"Department of Remote Sensing, Tartu Observatory, 61602 T\u00f5ravere, Estonia"},{"name":"Department of Physical Geography and Ecosystem Science, Lund University, S\u00f6lvegatan 12, S-223 62 Lund, Sweden"}]},{"given":"Kaupo","family":"Voormansik","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"KappaZeta Ltd., M\u00e4eallika, 71508 Suure-Jaani, Estonia"},{"name":"Department of Remote Sensing, Tartu Observatory, 61602 T\u00f5ravere, Estonia"}]},{"given":"Liina","family":"Talgre","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Field Crop and Grassland Husbandry, Estonian University of Life Sciences, Kreutzwaldi 1, 51014 Tartu, Estonia"}]}],"member":"1968","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2016,9,27]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref_1","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"164","DOI":"10.1016\/j.rse.2004.12.011","article-title":"Improvements of the MODIS terrestrial gross and net primary production global data set","volume":"95","author":"Zhao","year":"2005","journal-title":"Remote Sens. 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