Total sea ice concentration retrieval from the SSM/I 85.5 GHz channels during the Arctic summer

Remote Sensing of Environment

Volumn 62, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 63-76

  Lubin, Dan ^a   Garrity, Caren ^b   Ramseier, René O ^b   Whritner, Robert H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b Microwave Group Ottawa River Inc   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; CLOUDS; LIGHT POLARIZATION; MAPPING; OPACITY; SEA ICE;

SPECIAL SENSOR MICROWAVE IMAGER (SSM/I); TOTAL SEA ICE CONCENTRATION;

REMOTE SENSING;

ALGORITHM; ICE CONCENTRATION; MICROWAVE SENSING; SEA ICE; SSM/I;

ARCTIC;

EID: 0031253037     PISSN: 00344257     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0034-4257(97)00081-3     Document Type: Article

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