Simulation of asiras altimeter echoes for snow-covered first-year sea ice

IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Letters

Volumn 6, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 486-490

  Makynen, Marko P ^a   Hallikainen, Martti T ^b  

^a FINNISH METEOROLOGICAL INSTITUTE   (Finland)

^b AALTO UNIVERSITY   (Finland)

Author keywords

CryoSat; Radar altimetry; Sea ice

Indexed keywords

ACCURATE ESTIMATION; CRYOSAT; DRY SNOW; EUROPEAN SPACE AGENCY; FIRST-YEAR SEA ICES; ICE SURFACES; LIQUID WATER; RADAR ALTIMETERS; RADAR ALTIMETRY; SNOW AND ICE; SNOW COVERS; SNOW LOADS;

METEOROLOGICAL INSTRUMENTS; OCEANOGRAPHY; RADAR; SEA ICE; SOCIETIES AND INSTITUTIONS; STRUCTURAL DYNAMICS;

SNOW;

EID: 67651177439     PISSN: 1545598X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/LGRS.2009.2015968     Document Type: Article

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