Comparison of the ASI ice concentration algorithm with landsat-7 ETM+ and SAR imagery

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 47, Issue 9, 2009, Pages 3008-3015

  Wiebe, Heidrun ^a   Heygster, Georg ^a   Markus, Thorsten ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BREMEN   (Germany)

^b NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Remote sensing; Sea ice

Indexed keywords

CONTINUOUS MONITORING; ENHANCED THEMATIC MAPPERS; ENVISAT; FIRST-YEAR; ICE CONCENTRATION; ICE EDGE; ICE TYPE; INTERACTION MECHANISMS; LANDSAT; LANDSAT-7 ETM+; MARGINAL ICE ZONE; MICROWAVE SCANNING; MULTI-SPECTRAL; NEW-ICE; OBSERVING SYSTEMS; PASSIVE MICROWAVE SENSORS; RADARSAT; RMS ERRORS; SAR IMAGERY; SAR IMAGES; SEA ICE CONCENTRATION; TURBULENCE INTERACTIONS;

CONCENTRATION (PROCESS); EDGE DETECTION; MICROWAVES; OCEANOGRAPHY; REMOTE SENSING; SEA ICE; SYNTHETIC APERTURES;

ARCTIC ENGINEERING;

ALGORITHM; COMPARATIVE STUDY; ERROR ANALYSIS; LANDSAT; MULTISPECTRAL IMAGE; RADAR IMAGERY; SEA ICE; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR; THEMATIC MAPPING;

EID: 70349311266     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TGRS.2009.2026367     Document Type: Article

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