Intercomparisons of Antarctic sea ice types from visual ship, RADARSAT-1 SAR, Envisat ASAR, QuikSCAT, and AMSR-E satellite observations in the Bellingshausen Sea

Deep-Sea Research Part II: Topical Studies in Oceanography

Volumn 58, Issue 9-10, 2011, Pages 1092-1111

  Ozsoy Cicek, Burcu ^a   Kern, Stefan ^b   Ackley, Stephen F ^a   Xie, Hongjie ^a   Tekeli, Ahmet E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT SAN ANTONIO   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HAMBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Antarctica; Microwave remote sensing; Scatterometer; Sea ice type discrimination

Indexed keywords

ANTARCTIC SEA ICE; ANTARCTICA; AUSTRAL SPRING; DEGREE OF DEFORMATIONS; ENVISAT; ENVISAT ASAR; FIRST-YEAR; ICE MASS; ICE TRANSITION; ICE TYPE; ICE ZONES; INTERCOMPARISONS; KU-BAND; MARGINAL ICE ZONE; MICROWAVE REMOTE SENSING; PACK ICE; PASSIVE MICROWAVE DATA; POLARIZATION RADARS; QUIKSCAT; RADAR IMAGE; RADAR IMAGERY; RADARSAT 1; SATELLITE OBSERVATIONS; SCATTEROMETER; SEA ICE TYPE DISCRIMINATION; SNOW DEPTHS;

GEODETIC SATELLITES; METEOROLOGICAL INSTRUMENTS; OCEANOGRAPHY; RADAR; RADAR IMAGING; REMOTE SENSING; SEA ICE; SHIPS; SNOW; SNOW MELTING SYSTEMS; TRACKING RADAR;

SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR;

ENVISAT-1; POLARIZATION; QUIKSCAT; RADAR IMAGERY; RADARSAT; REMOTE SENSING; SCATTEROMETER; SEA ICE;

ANTARCTICA; BELLINGSHAUSEN SEA; SOUTHERN OCEAN;

EID: 79954630913     PISSN: 09670645     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.dsr2.2010.10.031     Document Type: Article

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