Growth of the Greenland Ice Sheet: A Performance Assessment of Altimeter Retracking Algorithms

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 33, Issue 5, 1995, Pages 1108-1116

  Davis, Curt H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI KANSAS CITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DATA PROCESSING; ESTIMATION; PERFORMANCE; RADIO ALTIMETERS; SEA ICE; SPATIAL VARIABLES MEASUREMENT; WAVEFORM ANALYSIS;

ALTIMETER RETRACKING ALGORITHMS; CROSSOVER DATA; ICE GROWTH; ICE SHEET; STANDARD DEVIATION; SURFACE ELEVATION;

ALGORITHMS;

EID: 0029370532     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: 15580644     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/36.469474     Document Type: Article

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