Assessment of the AMSR-E sea ice concentration product at the ice edge using RADARS AT-1 and MODIS imagery

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 44, Issue 11, 2006, Pages 3070-3079

  Heinrichs, John F ^a,b   Cavalieri, Donald J ^a,c   Markus, Thorsten ^a,c  

^a IEEE   (United States)

^b FORT HAYS STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Passive microwave remote sensing; Sea ice edge; Synthetic aperture radar (SAR); Validation

Indexed keywords

CONCENTRATION THRESHOLD; PASSIVE MICROWAVE REMOTE SENSING; SEA ICE EDGE;

CONCENTRATION (PROCESS); MICROWAVES; RADAR IMAGING; RADIOMETERS; REMOTE SENSING; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR;

SEA ICE;

EID: 33750805937     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TGRS.2006.880622     Document Type: Article

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