Direct helicopter EM - Sea-ice thickness inversion assessed with synthetic and field data

Geophysics

Volumn 72, Issue 4, 2007, Pages

  Pfaffling, Andreas ^a,c   Haas, Christian ^a   Reid, James E ^b,d  

^a ALFRED WEGENER INSTITUTE FOR POLAR AND MARINE RESEARCH   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TASMANIA   (Australia)

^c Geoforce Pty Ltd ^*

^d Geoforce Pty Ltd   (Australia)

Author keywords

Geomagnetism; Geophysical techniques; Sea ice; Terrestrial electricity

Indexed keywords

APPROXIMATION THEORY; CLIMATOLOGY; DATA PROCESSING; SEA ICE; THICKNESS MEASUREMENT;

HELICOPTER ELECTROMANETIC (HEM) SOUNDING; TERRESTRIAL ELECTRICITY;

GEOMAGNETISM;

ALGORITHM; DATA INVERSION; DATA PROCESSING; ELECTROMAGNETIC METHOD; GEOMAGNETISM; GEOPHYSICAL METHOD; ICE THICKNESS; SEA ICE;

EID: 34447309704     PISSN: 00168033     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1190/1.2732551     Document Type: Article

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