Effects of surface roughness on sea ice freeboard retrieval with an airborne ku-band SAR radar altimeter

International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium (IGARSS)

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 3126-3129

  Hendricks, Stefan ^a   Stenseng, Lars ^b   Helm, Veit ^a   Haas, Christian ^c  

^a ALFRED WEGENER INSTITUTE FOR POLAR AND MARINE RESEARCH   (Germany)

^b TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF DENMARK   (Denmark)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Radar altimetry; Sea ice; Snow; Synthetic aperture radar

Indexed keywords

ANEROID ALTIMETERS; METEOROLOGICAL INSTRUMENTS; RADIO ALTIMETERS; REMOTE SENSING; SEA ICE; SNOW; SURFACE ROUGHNESS; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR; WATER LEVELS;

AIRBORNE VALIDATION; EUROPEAN SPACE AGENCY; ICE DEFORMATION; LASER ALTIMETER; LASER RANGE MEASUREMENTS; RADAR ALTIMETRY; RANGE MEASUREMENTS; REGIONAL VARIABLE;

RADAR MEASUREMENT;

EID: 78650885509     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/IGARSS.2010.5654350     Document Type: Conference Paper

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