Arctic sea ice type and concentration mapping using passive and active microwave sensors

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 44, Issue 12, 2006, Pages 3574-3584

  Walker, Nicholas P ^a   Partington, Kim C ^a   Van Woert, Michael L ^b   Street, Towanda L T ^c  

^a Vexcel Corporation   (United States)

^b NATIONAL SCIENCE FOUNDATION   (United States)

^c National Ice Center   (United States)

Author keywords

Active microwave; Ice concentration; Passive microwave; QuikSCAT; Scatterometer; Sea ice; Special Sensor Microwave Imager (SSM I); Synergy

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; CLIMATOLOGY; CONFORMAL MAPPING; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE SCATTERING; IMAGE SENSORS; MICROWAVE DEVICES;

ACTIVE MICROWAVES; ICE CONCENTRATION; PASSIVE MICROWAVES; SPECIAL SENSOR MICROWAVE/IMAGER (SSM/I);

SEA ICE;

EID: 33845646263     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TGRS.2006.881116     Document Type: Article

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