Sar observations of arctic freeze-up compared to ssm/i during arctic’91

International Journal of Remote Sensing

Volumn 17, Issue 13, 1996, Pages 2603-2624

  Pettersson, M I ^a   Askne, J ^a   Cavalieri, D J ^b  

^a CHALMERS UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

^b NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE BACKSCATTERING; FREEZING; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; IMAGE SENSORS; IMAGING SYSTEMS; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; REMOTE SENSING; SEA ICE; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR;

ARCTIC ICE CONCENTRATION; SPECIAL SCANNING MICROWAVE/IMAGER IMAGES;

RADAR IMAGING;

ARCTIC'91; ICE CONCENTRATION; MICROWAVE IMAGE; RADAR IMAGE; SAR; SENSOR COMPARISON; SSM/I;

ARCTIC;

EID: 0030238303     PISSN: 01431161     EISSN: 13665901     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/01431169608949095     Document Type: Article

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