Sea ice identification using dual-polarized ku-band scatterometer data

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 35, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 560-569

  Yueh, Simon H ^a   Kwok, Ronald ^a   Lou, Shu Hsiang ^a   Tsai, Wu Yang ^a  

^a CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE BACKSCATTERING; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE POLARIZATION; METEOROLOGICAL RADAR; RADAR MEASUREMENT; SEA ICE;

COPOL RATIOS; NATIONAL AERONAUTICS AND SPACE ADMINISTRATION SCATTEROMETERS (NSCAT); SEASAT A SCATTEROMETERS (SASS);

REMOTE SENSING;

EID: 0031146097     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/36.581968     Document Type: Article

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