Detection of small-scale roughness and refractive index of sea ice in passive satellite microwave remote sensing

Remote Sensing of Environment

Volumn 114, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 1136-1140

  Hong, Sungwook ^a  

^a National Typhoon Center   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Microwave; Refractive index; Remote sensing; Sea ice; Small scale roughness

Indexed keywords

ARCTIC REGIONS; MELTING PROCESS; MICROWAVE EMISSIONS; MICROWAVE REFRACTIVE INDEX; MICROWAVE REMOTE SENSING; PASSIVE SATELLITES; PHYSICAL CHARACTERISTICS; POLAR ICE MASS; SEA SURFACES; SEA-ICE EDGE; SENSITIVE INDICATOR;

CLIMATE CHANGE; LIGHT REFRACTION; METAL ANALYSIS; MICROWAVES; OCEANOGRAPHY; REFRACTIVE INDEX; REFRACTOMETERS; REMOTE SENSING; SURFACE PROPERTIES; SURFACE ROUGHNESS;

SEA ICE;

DETECTION METHOD; REFRACTIVE INDEX; SATELLITE IMAGERY; SEA ICE; SURFACE ROUGHNESS;

ARCTIC AND ANTARCTIC;

EID: 76049129347     PISSN: 00344257     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.rse.2009.12.015     Document Type: Article

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