Arctic sea ice, cloud, water, and lead classification using neural networks and 1.6-μm data

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 40, Issue 9, 2002, Pages 1956-1972

  McIntire, Timothy J ^a   Simpson, James J ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Arctic; Climate; Neural networks; Remote sensing; Sea ice

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; CLIMATOLOGY; CLOUDS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FEEDFORWARD NEURAL NETWORKS; IMAGE SENSORS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; METEOROLOGICAL PROBLEMS; RADIOMETERS; SEA ICE; WEATHER FORECASTING; WEATHER SATELLITES;

PASSIVE MICROWAVE IMAGERY; POLAR SEA ICE; SATELLITE DATA;

REMOTE SENSING;

EID: 0036763017     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TGRS.2002.803728     Document Type: Article

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