Thin saline ice thickness retrieval using time-series c-band polarimetric radar measurements

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 36, Issue 5 PART 1, 1998, Pages 1589-1598

  Shih, Shih En ^a  

^a Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science   (United States)

Author keywords

Electromagnetic scattering inverse problems; Radar polarimetry; Sea ice; Time series

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTATIONAL METHODS; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE BACKSCATTERING; HEAT RADIATION; INVERSE PROBLEMS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MICROWAVES; POLARIMETERS; RADAR IMAGING; RADAR MEASUREMENT; SEA ICE; TIME SERIES ANALYSIS;

LEVENBERG-MARQUARDT METHOD; RADAR POLARIMETRY; THERMOPHYSICS;

REMOTE SENSING;

EID: 0032164988     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/36.718862     Document Type: Article

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