Information fusion for estimation of summer MIZ ice concentration from SAR imagery

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 37, Issue 3 I, 1999, Pages 1278-1291

  Haverkamp, Donna ^a  

^a Harris Corporation ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

IMAGE SEGMENTATION; RADAR IMAGING; SEA ICE; SENSOR DATA FUSION; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR;

IMAGE CLASSIFICATION; MARGINAL ICE ZONE (MIZ);

REMOTE SENSING;

EID: 0032667481     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/36.763288     Document Type: Article

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