Comparison of Envisat radar and airborne laser altimeter measurements over Arctic sea ice

Remote Sensing of Environment

Volumn 113, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 563-570

  Connor, Laurence N ^a   Laxon, Seymour W ^b   Ridout, Andrew L ^b   Krabill, William B ^c   McAdoo, David C ^a  

^a NOAA EARTH SYSTEM RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^c NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

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

Indexed keywords

AIRCRAFT; ANEROID ALTIMETERS; ICE; LASERS; MEASUREMENTS; METEOROLOGICAL INSTRUMENTS; MICROWAVES; OCEANOGRAPHY; PRECIPITATION (METEOROLOGY); RADAR; RADAR EQUIPMENT; RADIO ALTIMETERS; SATELLITES; SEA ICE; SNOW; SNOW MELTING SYSTEMS; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

LASER ALTIMETRY; RADAR ALTIMETER; SATELLITE ALTIMETRY; SEA ICE THICKNESS; SNOW DEPTH;

RADAR MEASUREMENT;

ALTIMETER; COMPARATIVE STUDY; ELEVATION; ENVISAT-1; ICE THICKNESS; LASER; SATELLITE ALTIMETRY; SEA ICE;

ARCTIC;

EID: 58649106672     PISSN: 00344257     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.rse.2008.10.015     Document Type: Article

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