Validation of airborne FMCW radar measurements of snow thickness over sea ice in antarctica

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 50, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 3-12

  Galin, Natalia ^a   Worby, Anthony ^b   Markus, Thorsten ^c   Leuschen, Carl ^d   Gogineni, Prasad ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b AUSTRALIAN ANTARCTIC DIVISION   (Australia)

^c NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS   (United States)

Author keywords

Airborne; Antarctica; frequency modulated continuous wave (FMCW); sea ice; snow

Indexed keywords

AIRBORNE; AIRBORNE DATA; ANTARCTIC SEA ICE; ANTARCTICA; DATA PRODUCTS; DYNAMIC NATURE; EAST ANTARCTICA; FMCW RADAR; FREQUENCY MODULATED CONTINUOUS WAVE RADARS; FREQUENCY-MODULATED CONTINUOUS WAVES; GLOBAL CLIMATE MODEL; GLOBAL CLIMATE SYSTEM; ICE SHEET; IN-SITU; IN-SITU DATA; IN-SITU MEASUREMENT; IN-SITU TECHNIQUES; INTEGRAL COMPONENTS; PERFORMANCE PARAMETERS; POLAR REGIONS; PRECIPITATION LEVEL; RADAR DESIGN; SATELLITE ALTIMETER; SEA-ICE THICKNESS; SNOW AND ICE; SNOW COVERS; SNOW DEPTHS; SNOW THICKNESS; SNOW-THICKNESS MEASUREMENT; VERTICAL DIMENSIONS;

CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE MODELS; CONTINUOUS WAVE RADAR; ESTIMATION; FREQUENCY MODULATION; IDENTIFICATION (CONTROL SYSTEMS); REMOTE SENSING; SEA ICE; SNOW; SNOW MAKING; SNOWFALL MEASUREMENT; THICKNESS MEASUREMENT;

RADAR MEASUREMENT;

ACCURACY ASSESSMENT; CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE MODELING; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; ESTIMATION METHOD; FREQUENCY ANALYSIS; GLOBAL CLIMATE; IDENTIFICATION METHOD; IN SITU MEASUREMENT; MEASUREMENT METHOD; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); RADAR; REMOTE SENSING; SATELLITE ALTIMETRY; SATELLITE DATA; SEA ICE; SNOW; SNOW COVER;

ANTARCTICA;

EID: 84855472048     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TGRS.2011.2159121     Document Type: Article

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