Geostatistical characterization of snow-depth structures on sea ice near Point Barrow, Alaska - A contribution to the AMSR-Ice03 field validation campaign

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 44, Issue 11, 2006, Pages 3038-3056

  Herzfeld, Ute C ^a   Maslanik, James A ^b   Sturm, Matthew ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^b UCB 450   (United States)

^c Engineering Research and Development Center   (United States)

Author keywords

Classification; Morphogenesis; Remote sensing; Roughness; Sea ice; Spatial data analysis

Indexed keywords

DATA REDUCTION; GEOSTATIONARY SATELLITES; MICROWAVES; MORPHOLOGY; RADIOMETERS; REMOTE SENSING; SNOW; SURFACE ROUGHNESS;

GEOSTATISTICAL CLASSIFICATION; MORPHOGENESIS; SNOW DEPTH; SPATIAL DATA ANALYSIS;

SEA ICE;

EID: 33750839222     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TGRS.2006.883349     Document Type: Article

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