Generation of high-resolution East Antarctic landfast sea-ice maps from cloud-free MODIS satellite composite imagery

Remote Sensing of Environment

Volumn 114, Issue 12, 2010, Pages 2888-2896

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

^a UNIVERSITY OF TASMANIA   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TASMANIA   (Australia)

^c AUSTRALIAN ANTARCTIC DIVISION   (Australia)

Author keywords

Antarctica; Fast ice; Landfast sea ice; Satellite remote sensing; Sea ice

Indexed keywords

ANTARCTIC COASTS; ANTARCTICA; CLOUD MASKING; CLOUD REMOVAL; COMPOSITE IMAGES; COMPOSITING; FAST ICE; HIGH RESOLUTION; ICE DETECTION; ICE EDGE; IMPERFECT COMPOSITE; LAND-FAST; SATELLITE COMPOSITE; SATELLITE REMOTE SENSING; SEA ICE CONCENTRATION; SPATIO-TEMPORAL RESOLUTION; THERMAL INFRARED;

ARCTIC ENGINEERING; IMAGE QUALITY; OCEANOGRAPHY; RADIOMETERS; REMOTE SENSING; SATELLITE IMAGERY;

SEA ICE;

AMSR-E; IMAGE RESOLUTION; MODIS; PIXEL; REMOTE SENSING; SATELLITE IMAGERY; SEA ICE; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS;

ANTARCTICA; EAST ANTARCTICA;

EID: 77956881422     PISSN: 00344257     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.rse.2010.07.006     Document Type: Article

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