Automated delineation of dry and melt snow zones in Antarctica using active and passive microwave observations from space

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 44, Issue 8, 2006, Pages 2152-2163

  Liu, Hongxing ^a,b   Wang, Lei ^b   Jezek, Kenneth C ^a,c  

^a IEEE   (United States)

^b TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Antarctica; Passive microwave; Snow zones; Synthetic aperture radar (SAR)

Indexed keywords

ANTARCTICA; PASSIVE MICROWAVES; SNOW ZONES; SPECIAL SENSOR MICROWAVE;

ALGORITHMS; BACKSCATTERING; ERROR ANALYSIS; MICROWAVES; MORPHOLOGY; SATELLITE COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR; WAVELET TRANSFORMS;

SNOW;

EID: 33746924075     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TGRS.2006.872132     Document Type: Article

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