Assessment of AMSR-E antarctic winter sea-ice concentrations using aqua MODIS

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 48, Issue 9, 2010, Pages 3331-3339

  Cavalieri, Donald J ^a   Markus, Thorsten ^a   Hall, Dorothy K ^a   Ivanoff, Alvaro ^b   Glick, Emily ^c  

^a NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

^b ADNET SYSTEMS INC   (United States)

^c BRYN MAWR COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

Advanced Microwave Scanning Radiometer for the Earth Observing System (AMSR E); Antarctic; Sea ice concentration; Validation

Indexed keywords

ADVANCED MICROWAVE SCANNING RADIOMETER FOR THE EARTH OBSERVING SYSTEM; ANTARCTIC; AQUA MODIS; ICE CONCENTRATION; ICE EDGE; MARGINAL ICE ZONE; MODERATE RESOLUTION IMAGING SPECTRORADIOMETER; NATIONAL AERONAUTICS AND SPACE ADMINISTRATIONS; NEW-ICE; OPEN WATER; RMS ERRORS; ROOT-MEAN-SQUARE ERRORS; SEA ICE CONCENTRATION; VALIDATION;

ARCTIC ENGINEERING; CONCENTRATION (PROCESS); ERRORS; METEOROLOGICAL INSTRUMENTS; NASA; RADIOMETERS; RADIOMETRY; SATELLITE IMAGERY; SCANNING;

ICE;

ALGORITHM; ASSESSMENT METHOD; EOS; ERROR ANALYSIS; FLOODING; MICROWAVE RADIOMETER; MODIS; OPEN WATER; RESOLUTION; SEA ICE;

EID: 77956059291     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TGRS.2010.2046495     Document Type: Article

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