Ten years of Sea Winds on QuikSCAT for snow applications

Remote Sensing

Volumn 2, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 1142-1156

  Bartsch, Annett ^a  

^a VIENNA UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Austria)

Author keywords

Circumpolar; Ku band; Scatterometer; Snow

Indexed keywords

CHANGE DETECTION ALGORITHMS; CIRCUMPOLAR; DATA CHARACTERISTICS; EVENT ANALYSIS; ICE-CAPS; KU-BAND; PRE-PROCESSING STEP; QUIKSCAT; SCATTEROMETERS; SEAWINDS; SNOWMELT; TEMPORAL AVERAGING; TERRESTRIAL APPLICATION; URBAN MAPPING;

METEOROLOGICAL INSTRUMENTS; SIGNAL DETECTION;

SNOW;

EID: 84860390406     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20724292     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/rs2041142     Document Type: Review

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