Polarization of "water-skies" above arctic open waters: How polynyas in the ice-cover can be visually detected from a distance

Journal of the Optical Society of America A: Optics and Image Science, and Vision

Volumn 24, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 132-138

  Hegedüs, Ramón ^a   Åkesson, Susanne ^b   Horváth, Gábor ^a  

^a EÖTVÖS LORÁND UNIVERSITY   (Hungary)

^b LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EXTRATERRESTRIAL ATMOSPHERES; LIGHT POLARIZATION; SEA ICE; STATISTICAL METHODS; SURFACE WATERS;

OPEN WATERS; POLYNYAS; WATER SKY;

ATMOSPHERIC OPTICS;

ALGORITHM; ARCTIC; ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; EVALUATION; ICE COVER; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; METHODOLOGY; REFRACTOMETRY; REPRODUCIBILITY; SEA; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STATISTICAL MODEL;

ALGORITHMS; ARCTIC REGIONS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; ICE COVER; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; INFORMATION STORAGE AND RETRIEVAL; MODELS, STATISTICAL; OCEANS AND SEAS; REFRACTOMETRY; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 33846571935     PISSN: 10847529     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/JOSAA.24.000132     Document Type: Article

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