Fusing AMSR-E and QuikSCAT imagery for improved sea ice recognition

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 47, Issue 7, 2009, Pages 1980-1989

  Yu, Peter ^a   Clausi, David A ^a   Howell, Stephen E L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Beaufort Sea; Classification; Data fusion; Ice mapping; Multisensor; Passive microwave; Principal component (PC) analysis (PCA); Scatterometer

Indexed keywords

BEAUFORT SEA; CLASSIFICATION; MULTISENSOR; PASSIVE MICROWAVE; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT (PC) ANALYSIS (PCA); SCATTEROMETER;

CLASSIFIERS; DATA FUSION; INFORMATION FUSION; LEARNING SYSTEMS; MAPPING; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD ESTIMATION; METEOROLOGICAL INSTRUMENTS; MICROWAVES; OCEANOGRAPHY; PREFERRED NUMBERS; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; SEA ICE;

CLASSIFICATION (OF INFORMATION);

ARCTIC ENVIRONMENT; EOS; IMAGING METHOD; MAPPING METHOD; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; QUIKSCAT; RADIOMETER; SEA ICE;

ARCTIC OCEAN; BEAUFORT SEA;

EID: 67651158842     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TGRS.2009.2013632     Document Type: Article

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