Dual-frequency altimeter signal from Envisat on the Amery ice-shelf

Remote Sensing of Environment

Volumn 109, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 285-294

  Lacroix, Pascal ^a   Legrésy, Benoit ^a   Coleman, Richard ^b   Dechambre, Monique ^c   Rémy, Frédérique ^a  

^a LEGOS   (France)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TASMANIA   (Australia)

^c SERVICE D AÉRONOMIE DU CNRS   (France)

Author keywords

Antartica; Crevasses; Ice shelf; Radar altimetry; Radar waves penetration; Snow properties

Indexed keywords

SATELLITE OBSERVATORIES; SPACECRAFT; WAVEFORM ANALYSIS;

ANTARTICA; CREVASSES; ICE SHELF; RADAR ALTIMETRY; RADAR WAVES PENETRATION; SNOW PROPERTIES;

RADIO ALTIMETERS;

CREVASSE; ENVISAT-1; ICE SHELF; RADAR ALTIMETRY; SNOW;

ANTARCTICA;

EID: 34250658926     PISSN: 00344257     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.rse.2007.01.007     Document Type: Article

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