Retrieval of sea ice thickness distribution in the seasonal ice zone from airborne L-band SAR

International Journal of Remote Sensing

Volumn 30, Issue 12, 2009, Pages 3171-3189

  Toyota, T ^a   Nakamura, K ^b   Uto, S ^c   Ohshima, K I ^a   Ebuchi, N ^a  

^a HOKKAIDO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ADVANCED INDUSTRIAL SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AIST   (Japan)

^c NATIONAL MARITIME RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACKSCATTERING; LOW PASS FILTERS; SEA ICE; SHIPS; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR; THICKNESS CONTROL;

BACKSCATTERING COEFFICIENTS; L-BAND SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADARS; SATELLITE DATA; SEA ICE THICKNESS DISTRIBUTIONS; SEA OF OKHOTSK; SEASONAL ICE ZONES; STANDARD DEVIATION; SURFACE ELEVATIONS;

SURFACE ROUGHNESS;

ICE BREAKER; ICE THICKNESS; SATELLITE DATA; SEA ICE; SURFACE ROUGHNESS; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR;

PACIFIC OCEAN; SEA OF OKHOTSK;

EID: 70449377380     PISSN: 01431161     EISSN: 13665901     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/01431160802558790     Document Type: Article

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