Information states in radar imagery of sea ice

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 37, Issue 3 I, 1999, Pages 1435-1446

  Kerman, Bryan R ^a  

^a ENVIRONMENT CANADA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

IMAGE ANALYSIS; REMOTE SENSING; SEA ICE; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR;

INFORMATION CURVE;

RADAR IMAGING;

EID: 0032638664     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/36.763307     Document Type: Article

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