Laser altimetry sampling strategies over sea ice

Annals of Glaciology

Volumn 52, Issue 57 PART 1, 2011, Pages 69-76

  Farrell, Sinéad L ^a,b,d   Markus, Thorsten ^b   Kwok, Ron ^c   Connor, Laurence ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

^b NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

^c CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^d NOAA EARTH SYSTEM RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY ASSESSMENT; AIRBORNE SENSING; ALGORITHM; ASSESSMENT METHOD; ICE THICKNESS; ICESAT; MAPPING METHOD; MEASUREMENT METHOD; NUMERICAL MODEL; SAMPLING; SATELLITE ALTIMETRY; SEA ICE; SIGNAL-TO-NOISE RATIO; SPATIAL RESOLUTION; TIME SERIES; VEGETATION STRUCTURE; AIRBORNE SURVEY; ALTIMETRY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELEVATION; LASER METHOD; SATELLITE IMAGERY; TIME SERIES ANALYSIS; TOPOGRAPHIC MAPPING;

SOUTHERN OCEAN; ARCTIC OCEAN;

EID: 79958093387     PISSN: 02603055     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3189/172756411795931660     Document Type: Article

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