Melt ponds on Arctic sea ice determined from MODIS satellite data using an artificial neural network

Cryosphere

Volumn 6, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 431-446

  Rosel A ^a,b   Kaleschke, L ^a   Birnbaum, G ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAMBURG   (Germany)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR COMPARATIVE AND INTERNATIONAL PRIVATE LAW   (Germany)

^c ALFRED WEGENER INSTITUTE FOR POLAR AND MARINE RESEARCH   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALBEDO; ALGORITHM; ARTIFICIAL NEURAL NETWORK; DATA SET; MELT; MODIS; POND; SATELLITE DATA; SATELLITE IMAGERY; SEA ICE; SENSOR; SPECTRAL ANALYSIS; SURFACE REFLECTANCE;

ARCTIC OCEAN;

EID: 84859377370     PISSN: 19940416     EISSN: 19940424     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/tc-6-431-2012     Document Type: Article

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