A new sea-ice concentration algorithm based on microwave surface emissivitiesapplication to AMSU measurements

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 49, Issue 1 PART 1, 2011, Pages 175-189

  Kongoli, Cezar ^a   Boukabara, Sid Ahmed ^b   Yan, Banghua ^b   Weng, F ^b   Ferraro, Ralph ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

^b NOAA EARTH SYSTEM RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Microwave radiometry; remote sensing; sea ice; variational methods

Indexed keywords

ADVANCED MICROWAVE SOUNDING UNITS; BRIGHTNESS TEMPERATURE MEASUREMENT; FIRST-YEAR; GROUND TRUTH; MAPPING SYSTEMS; MICROWAVE RADIOMETRY; MICROWAVE REMOTE SENSING; MICROWAVE SURFACE; MULTI SENSOR; NATIONAL OCEANIC AND ATMOSPHERIC ADMINISTRATION; PASSIVE MICROWAVES; RETRIEVAL ALGORITHMS; SEA ICE CONCENTRATION; SNOW AND ICE; SURFACE EMISSIVITY; TWO-STEP ALGORITHMS; VARIATIONAL METHODS; WARM SEASONS; WEATHER EFFECT;

ALGORITHMS; ATMOSPHERIC HUMIDITY; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE EMISSION; LIBRARIES; MICROWAVES; OCEANOGRAPHY; RADIOMETERS; RADIOMETRY; REMOTE SENSING; SEA ICE; TEMPERATURE MEASUREMENT;

MICROWAVE SENSORS;

ALGORITHM; BRIGHTNESS TEMPERATURE; EMISSIVITY; MICROWAVE RADIOMETER; NUMERICAL MODEL; PERFORMANCE ASSESSMENT; REMOTE SENSING; SEA ICE;

EID: 78650953273     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TGRS.2010.2052812     Document Type: Conference Paper

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