Comparison of NASA Team2 and AES-York ice concentration algorithms against operational ice charts from the Canadian ice service

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 44, Issue 8, 2006, Pages 2164-2175

  Shokr, Mohammed ^a,b   Markus, Thorsten ^a,c  

^a IEEE   (Canada)

^b ENVIRONMENT CANADA   (Canada)

^c NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Atmospheric Environment Service (AES) York algorithm; Data fusion; Enhanced NASA Team (NT2) algorithm; Ice retrieval algorithms; Operational ice monitoring, passive microwave for ice; Radarsat; Sea ice concentration

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC ENVIRONMENT SERVICE (AES)-YORK ALGORITHMS; DATA FUSION; ENHANCED NASA TEAM (NT2) ALGORITHMS; OPERATIONAL ICE MONITORING, PASSIVE MICROWAVE FOR ICE; RADARSAT; SEA ICE CONCENTRATION;

ALGORITHMS; CONCENTRATION (PROCESS); MICROWAVES; RADAR; SENSOR DATA FUSION; WEATHER FORECASTING;

SEA ICE;

EID: 33746898645     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TGRS.2006.872077     Document Type: Article

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