Ultrawideband radar measurements of thickness of snow over sea ice

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 45, Issue 9, 2007, Pages 2715-2724

  Kanagaratnam, Pannirselvam ^a,b   Markus, Thorsten ^a,c   Lytie, Victoria ^d   Heavey, Brandon ^e   Jansen, Peter ^f   Prescott, Glenn ^a,c,g   Gogineni, Siva Prasad ^a,h  

^a IEEE

^b Benaforce Sdn Bhd   (Malaysia)

^c NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

^d Climate and Cryosphere (CliC) Program   (Norway)

^e CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^f AUSTRALIAN ANTARCTIC DIVISION   (Australia)

^g University of Kansas   (United States)

^h UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS   (United States)

Author keywords

Antarctica; FM CW radar; Microwave; Sea ice; Snow; Ultrawideband radar

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; PHASE LOCKED LOOPS; RADAR MEASUREMENT; SEA ICE; SENSORS; SNOW;

CHIRP SIGNAL; CONTINUOUS WAVE RADAR; ULTRAWIDEBAND RADAR;

THICKNESS MEASUREMENT;

EID: 34548290268     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TGRS.2007.900673     Document Type: Article

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