Radio echo sounding of Pine Island Glacier, West Antarctica: Aperture synthesis processing and analysis of feasibility from space

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 45, Issue 8, 2007, Pages 2573-2582

  Hélière, Florence ^a   Lin, Chung Chi ^a   Corr, Hugh ^b   Vaughan, David ^b  

^a EUROPEAN SPACE AGENCY   (Netherlands)

^b BRITISH ANTARCTIC SURVEY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Airborne radar; Antarctica; Ice sounding; Satellite remote sensing; Subglacial topography; Synthetic aperture radar (SAR) processing; West Antarctic Ice Sheet

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; ECHO SUPPRESSION; GLACIERS; ICE; REMOTE SENSING; SATELLITES; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR; TOPOGRAPHY;

AIRBORNE ICE-SOUNDING RADAR; ECHO SOUNDING; ICE SHEET; INTERNAL LAYERS; SUBGLACIAL TOPOGRAPHY;

RADIO SYSTEMS;

EID: 34547426300     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TGRS.2007.897433     Document Type: Conference Paper

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