Dry biomass estimation of paddy rice with Sentinel-1A satellite data using machine learning regression algorithms

•For the entire growing season, VV is more consistent with rice dry biomass than VH.•For the entire growing season, VHVV produced more accurate rice biomass estimates.•RF outperformed the other algorithms in rice dry biomass estimation with VHVV.•The most accurate rice biomass estimates were recorde...

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