Field investigations of Ku-band radar penetration into snow cover on antarctic sea ice

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 48, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 365-372

  Willatt, Rosemary C ^a   Giles, Katharine A ^a   Laxon, Seymour W ^a   Stone Drake, Lucas ^a   Worby, Anthony P ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b ANTARCTIC CLIMATE AND ECOSYSTEMS COOPERATIVE RESEARCH CENTRE   (Australia)

Author keywords

Antarctic regions; Frequency modulated (FM) radar; Ice; Radar altimetry; Snow

Indexed keywords

AIRBORNE OBSERVATIONS; ANTARCTIC REGIONS; ANTARCTIC SEA ICE; ANTARCTICA; ARCTIC SNOW; FIELD INVESTIGATION; FIELD MEASUREMENT; FREQUENCY-MODULATED (FM) RADAR; KU-BAND; MORPHOLOGICAL FEATURES; RADAR ALTIMETRY; RADAR DATA; RADAR RETURNS; SATELLITE RADAR; SATELLITE RADAR ALTIMETRY; SCATTERING SURFACE; SEA-ICE THICKNESS; SNOW COVERS; SNOW DENSITY; SNOW DEPTHS; SNOW PACKS; SNOW STRATIGRAPHY;

FREQUENCY MODULATION; OCEANOGRAPHY; RADAR; SCATTERING; SEA ICE; SNOW; STRATIGRAPHY;

RADAR MEASUREMENT;

DATA PROCESSING; FLOODING; ICE THICKNESS; RADAR ALTIMETRY; SATELLITE IMAGERY; SCATTERING; SEA ICE; SNOW; SNOW COVER;

ANTARCTICA; EAST ANTARCTICA;

EID: 73249145383     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TGRS.2009.2028237     Document Type: Article

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