Seasonal comparisons of sea ice concentration estimates derived from SSM/I, OKEAN, and RADARSAT data

Remote Sensing of Environment

Volumn 81, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 67-81

  Belchansky, Gennady I ^a   Douglas, David C ^b  

^a RUSSIAN ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (Russian Federation)

^b U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

Author keywords

Backscattering cross section; Brightness temperature; OKEAN; Passive microwave; Radar; RADARSAT; SAR; ScanSAR; Sea ice concentration; Seasonal comparison; SSM I; Standard Beam

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; BACKSCATTERING; RADIOMETERS; REMOTE SENSING; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR;

BOOTSTRAP ALGORITHM;

SEA ICE;

CLIMATOLOGY; COMPARATIVE STUDY; SATELLITE SENSOR; SEA ICE; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; SSM-I;

ARCTIC OCEAN; BARENTS SEA; KARA SEA; LAPTEV SEA;

EID: 0036262664     PISSN: 00344257     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0034-4257(01)00333-9     Document Type: Article

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