An enhancement of the NASA team sea ice algorithm

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 38, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 1387-1398

  Markus, Thorsten ^a  

^a NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Algorithms; Passive microwave; Sea ice

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; ANTARCTICA; ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; INFRARED IMAGING; MICROWAVES; RADIOMETERS; SEA ICE; SNOW;

FORWARD ATMOSPHERIC RADIATIVE TRANSFER MODEL; PASSIVE MICROWAVE; SEA ICE CONCENTRATION;

REMOTE SENSING;

EID: 0033687689     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/36.843033     Document Type: Article

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