Regional classes of sea ice cover in the East Antarctic pack observed from satellite and in situ data during a winter time period

Remote Sensing of Environment

Volumn 68, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 61-76

  Massom, R A ^a   Comiso, J C ^b   Worby, A P ^a,c   Lytle, V I ^a,c   Stock, L ^d  

^a ANTARCTIC CLIMATE AND ECOSYSTEMS COOPERATIVE RESEARCH CENTRE   (Australia)

^b NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

^c AUSTRALIAN ANTARCTIC DIVISION   (Australia)

^d Caelum Research Corporation   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

SATELLITE OBSERVATORIES; SEA ICE; SENSOR DATA FUSION; SNOW;

ATMOSPHERIC FORCING;

REMOTE SENSING;

CLASSIFICATION; SATELLITE IMAGERY; SEA ICE;

EID: 0033117653     PISSN: 00344257     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0034-4257(98)00100-X     Document Type: Article

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