Development of a synergetic sea ice retrieval method for the ers-1 ami wind scatterometer and ssm/i radiometer

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 37, Issue 2 I, 1999, Pages 668-679

  Grandeil, Jochen ^a   Johannessen, Johnny A ^b   Hallikainen, Martti T ^b  

^a FINNISH GEODETIC INSTITUTE   (Finland)

^b EUROPEAN SPACE AGENCY   (France)

Author keywords

Scatterometry; Sea ice; Special sensor microwave imager (ssm i); Synergy

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; MICROWAVES; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; RADIOMETERS; SEA ICE;

ACTIVE MICROWAVE INSTRUMENT (AMI); MIXED PIXEL SIGNATURE; SCATTEROMETERS; SPECIAL SENSOR MICROWAVE/IMAGER (SSM/I);

REMOTE SENSING;

EID: 0033097750     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/36.752184     Document Type: Article

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