Characterization of arctic sea ice thickness using high-resolution spaceborne polarimetric SAR data

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 50, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 13-22

  Kim, Jin Woo ^a   Kim, Duk Jin ^a   Hwang, Byong Jun ^b  

^a Seoul National University   (South Korea)

^b SCOTTISH MARINE INSTITUTE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Polarization; scattering parameter measurement; sea ice thickness; synthetic aperture radar (SAR)

Indexed keywords

ARCTIC SEA ICE; CO-POLARIZED; CROSS-POLARIZED; DEPOLARIZATION EFFECTS; DEPOLARIZATION FACTOR; FIRST-YEAR; HIGH RESOLUTION; ICE SURFACES; IN-SITU; LAND-FAST; NUMERICAL MODEL SIMULATIONS; POLARIMETRIC SAR DATA; POLARIMETRIC SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADARS; RADARSAT-2; SCATTER PLOTS; SCATTERING MECHANISMS; SCATTERING PARAMETER MEASUREMENT; SEA ICE THICKNESS; SPACE-BORNE; STRONG CORRELATION; SUBSURFACE LAYER; TERRASAR-X; VOLUME SCATTERING;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; DEPOLARIZATION; POLARIMETERS; POLARIZATION; POLAROGRAPHIC ANALYSIS; SCATTERING; SCATTERING PARAMETERS; SEA ICE; SYNTHETIC APERTURES;

SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR;

ESTIMATION METHOD; ICE THICKNESS; RADARSAT; RESOLUTION; SATELLITE DATA; SCATTERING; SEA ICE; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR; TERRASAR-X; VOLUME;

ARCTIC OCEAN;

EID: 84855465505     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TGRS.2011.2160070     Document Type: Article

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