Improved determination of the sea ice edge with SSM/I data for small-scale analyses

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 36, Issue 5 PART 2, 1998, Pages 1795-1808

  Hunewinkel, Thomas ^a   Markus, Thorsten ^a   Heygster, Georg C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BREMEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Backus gilbert restoration and interpolation; Ice edge; Polynya signature simulation method (pssm); Sea ice; Special sensor microwave imager (ssm i); Superresolution; Weddell sea

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; IMAGING TECHNIQUES; INTERPOLATION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MICROWAVE DEVICES; TIME SERIES ANALYSIS;

BACKUS-GILBERT METHODS; POLYNYA SIGNATURE SIMULATION METHOD (PSSM); SPECIAL SENSOR MICROWAVE/IMAGER (SSM/I);

SEA ICE;

EID: 0032166082     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/36.718647     Document Type: Article

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