Microwave Sea-Ice Signatures Near the Onset of Melt

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn GE-25, Issue 2, 1987, Pages 174-187

  Livingstone, Charles E ^a   Gray, A Laurence ^a   Singh, Keshava P ^a   Onstott, R G ^b   Arsenault, L D ^c  

^a CANADA CENTRE FOR REMOTE SENSING   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS   (United States)

^c Cold Regions Remote Sensing Stittsville ^*  (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MICROWAVES - SPECTRUM ANALYSIS;

MICROWAVE SIGNATURES; ONSET OF MELT; SEA ICE;

ICE;

EID: 0023310326     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: 15580644     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TGRS.1987.289816     Document Type: Article

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