Detection of ice and mixed icewater pixels for MODIS ocean color data processing

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 47, Issue 8, 2009, Pages 2510-2518

  Wang, Menghua ^a   Shi, Wei ^a,b  

^a OFFICE OF RESEARCH AND APPLICATIONS   (United States)

^b Veterinary Dentistry and Oral Surgery   (United States)

Author keywords

Atmospheric correction; Ocean color products; Remote sensing; Sea ice

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC CORRECTION; ATMOSPHERIC CORRECTIONS; CHLOROPHYLL-A CONCENTRATION; CLEAR SKY; CLOUD MASKING; GLOBAL OCEAN; ICE DETECTION; ICE SURFACES; ICEWATER; MODERATE RESOLUTION IMAGING SPECTRORADIOMETER; NATIONAL ICE CENTERS; NEAR INFRA RED; NEW-ICE; OCEAN COLOR; OCEAN COLOR PRODUCTS; OCEAN WATER; PRODUCT DATA; SHORT WAVE INFRARED; WATER-LEAVING RADIANCES;

ALGORITHMS; ATMOSPHERICS; CHLOROPHYLL; COLOR; INFRARED DEVICES; OCEAN CURRENTS; PIXELS; PORPHYRINS; REFLECTION; REMOTE SENSING; SEA ICE; SPECTROMETERS; SURFACE CHEMISTRY;

DATA PROCESSING;

ALGORITHM; ATMOSPHERIC CORRECTION; DATA PROCESSING; GLOBAL OCEAN; MODIS; NOAA SATELLITE; OCEAN COLOR; PIXEL; REMOTE SENSING; SEA ICE; SHORTWAVE RADIATION;

EID: 67949083531     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TGRS.2009.2014365     Document Type: Article

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