Combined airborne laser and radar altimeter measurements over the Fram Strait in May 2002

Remote Sensing of Environment

Volumn 111, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 182-194

  Giles, K A ^a   Laxon, S W ^a   Wingham, D J ^a   Wallis, D W ^a   Krabill, W B ^b   Leuschen, C J ^c   McAdoo, D ^d   Manizade, S S ^e   Raney, R K ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

^c JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY APPLIED PHYSICS LABORATORY   (United States)

^d NOAA EARTH SYSTEM RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^e EG&G   (United States)

Author keywords

Laser altimetry; Radar altimetry; Sea ice thickness; Snow depth

Indexed keywords

CLIMATOLOGY; ICE; LASER APPLICATIONS; RADAR; RADAR MEASUREMENT; THICKNESS MEASUREMENT;

LASER ALTIMETRY; LASER RADAR ALTIMETRY (LARA); RADAR ALTIMETRY; SEA ICE THICKNESS; SNOW DEPTH;

REMOTE SENSING;

AIRBORNE SENSING; COMPARATIVE STUDY; ERS-2; ICE THICKNESS; LASER METHOD; RADAR ALTIMETRY; SATELLITE ALTIMETRY; SEA ICE;

ARCTIC; FRAM STRAIT;

EID: 35548992756     PISSN: 00344257     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.rse.2007.02.037     Document Type: Article

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