Sea-ice thickness retrieval in the Sea of Okhotsk using dual-polarization SAR data

Annals of Glaciology

Volumn 44, Issue , 2006, Pages 261-268

  Nakamura, Kazuki ^a,e   Wakabayashi, Hiroyuki ^b,f   Uto, Shotaro ^c   Naoki, Kazuhiro ^d   Nishio, Fumihiko ^d   Uratsuka, Seiho ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATIONS TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^b JAPAN AEROSPACE EXPLORATION AGENCY   (Japan)

^c NATIONAL MARITIME RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Japan)

^d CHIBA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^e NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF POLAR RESEARCH   (Japan)

^f NIHON UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; BACKSCATTER; CORRELATION; EMPIRICAL ANALYSIS; ICE THICKNESS; POLARIZATION; SEA ICE; SURFACE ROUGHNESS; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR;

PACIFIC OCEAN; SEA OF OKHOTSK;

EID: 34249008084     PISSN: 02603055     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3189/172756406781811420     Document Type: Conference Paper

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