Intersensor calibration between F-13 SSM/I and F-17 SSMIS near-real-time sea ice estimates

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 49, Issue 9, 2011, Pages 3343-3349

  Meier, Walter N ^a   Khalsa, Siri Jodha Singh ^a   Savoie, Matthew H ^a  

^a National Snow and Ice Data Center   (United States)

Author keywords

Arctic region; calibration; microwave measurements; microwave radiometry; remote sensing; sea ice; special issues and sections

Indexed keywords

ARCTIC REGIONS; DATA CENTERS; INTERCALIBRATION; INTERSENSOR; MICROWAVE RADIOMETRY; NEAR-REAL TIME; SEA ICE CONCENTRATION; SEA ICE EXTENT; SENSITIVITY STUDIES; SNOW AND ICE; SPECIAL ISSUES AND SECTIONS; SPECIAL SENSOR MICROWAVE/IMAGER; TEAM ALGORITHMS;

CALIBRATION; MICROWAVE SENSORS; MICROWAVES; NASA; OCEANOGRAPHY; RADIOMETERS; RADIOMETRY; REMOTE SENSING; SPACE OPTICS; TIME SERIES;

SEA ICE;

ALGORITHM; ARCTIC ENVIRONMENT; CALIBRATION; DATA SET; ESTIMATION METHOD; REAL TIME; SEA ICE; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SENSOR; SNOW; SSM-I; TIME SERIES;

EID: 80052322503     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TGRS.2011.2117433     Document Type: Conference Paper

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