A method for compositing polar MODIS satellite images to remove cloud cover for landfast sea-ice detection

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 47, Issue 9, 2009, Pages 3272-3282

  Fraser, Alexander D ^a   Massom, Robert A ^a,b   Michael, Kelvin J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TASMANIA   (Australia)

^b AUSTRALIAN ANTARCTIC DIVISION   (Australia)

Author keywords

Remote sensing; Satellite applications; Sea ice

Indexed keywords

ANTARCTIC COASTS; ANTARCTICA; AQUA SATELLITES; CLOUD COVER; COMPOSITE IMAGES; COMPOSITING; EARTH OBSERVING SYSTEMS; HIGHER LATITUDES; LAND-FAST; MODERATE RESOLUTION IMAGING SPECTRORADIOMETER; POLAR ORBIT; POLAR RESEARCH; SATELLITE APPLICATIONS; SATELLITE IMAGES; SPATIAL RESOLUTION; STORAGE SPACES; THERMAL INFRARED;

ATMOSPHERICS; NASA; OCEANOGRAPHY; REMOTE SENSING; SATELLITE IMAGERY; SEA ICE; SPACE OPTICS; SPECTROMETERS;

RADIOMETERS;

CLOUD COVER; IMAGE RESOLUTION; MODIS; SATELLITE IMAGERY; SEA ICE;

ANTARCTICA; EAST ANTARCTICA;

EID: 70349327522     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TGRS.2009.2019726     Document Type: Article

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