High-resolution maps of the sea-ice concentration from MODIS satellite data

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 31, Issue 20, 2004, Pages

  Drüe, Clemens ^a   Heinemann, Günther ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BONN   (Germany)

Author keywords

3339 Meteorology and atmospheric dynamics: Ocean atmosphere interactions (0312; 3349 Meteorology and atmospheric dynamics: Polar meteorology; 3360 Meteorology and atmospheric dynamics: Remote sensing; 3394 Meteorology and atmospheric dynamics: Instruments and techniques; 4504); 9315 Information related to geographic region: Arctic region

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; MAPS; OCEANOGRAPHY; OPTICAL RESOLVING POWER; REMOTE SENSING; SATELLITE OBSERVATORIES;

MODERATE RESOLUTION IMAGING SPECTRORADIOMETER (MODIS) SATELLITE; SEA ICE CONCENTRATION; SPECIAL SENSOR MICROWAVE IMAGER (SSM/I);

SEA ICE;

ALGORITHM; BRIGHTNESS TEMPERATURE; DATA PROCESSING; MODIS; REMOTE SENSING; SATELLITE DATA; SEA ICE; SPATIAL RESOLUTION; SSM-I;

EID: 11844303442     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2004GL020808     Document Type: Article

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