Observation of sea-ice thickness in the sea of okhotsk by using dual-frequency and fully polarimetric airborne SAR (Pi-SAR) data

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 43, Issue 11, 2005, Pages 2460-2468

  Nakamura, Kazuki ^a,b,e,f   Wakabayashi, Hiroyuki ^a,c,e,g,h,i   Naoki, Kazuhiro ^d,f   Nishio, Fumihiko ^a,d,f,j,k   Moriyama, Toshifumi ^a,b,e,g   Uratsuka, Seiho ^a,b,f,g  

^a IEEE   (Japan)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATIONS TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^c JAPAN AEROSPACE EXPLORATION AGENCY   (Japan)

^d CHIBA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^e Remote Sensing Society of   (Japan)

^f Japanese Society of Snow and Ice   (Japan)

^g Japanese Society of Snow and Ice ^*  (United Kingdom)

^h Japan Society of Programmetry   (Japan)

ⁱ Japanese Society of Snow and Ice   (Japan)

^j International Glaciological Society   (United Kingdom)

^k Meteorological Society of Japan   (Japan)

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Author keywords

Backscattering ratio; Polarimetric decomposition; Sea ice; Sea of okhotsk; Synthetic aperture radar (SAR)

Indexed keywords

BACKSCATTERING RATIO; DUAL-FREQUENCY; POLARIMETRIC DECOMPOSITION; SEA OF OKHOTSK;

BACKSCATTERING; INTERFEROMETRY; POLARIZATION; SURFACE ROUGHNESS; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR; THICKNESS MEASUREMENT;

SEA ICE;

EID: 27844584251     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TGRS.2005.853928     Document Type: Conference Paper

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