A first assessment of IceBridge Snow and Ice thickness data over arctic sea ice

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 50, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 2098-2111

  Farrell, Sinéad Louise ^a   Kurtz, Nathan ^b,c   Connor, Laurence N ^d   Elder, Bruce C ^e   Leuschen, Carlton ^f   Markus, Thorsten ^b   McAdoo, David C ^d   Panzer, Ben ^f   Richter Menge, Jacqueline ^e   Sonntag, John G ^g  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

^b NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

^c MORGAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d NOAA EARTH SYSTEM RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^e Engineer Research and Development Center   (United States)

^f UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS   (United States)

^g URS CORPORATION   (United States)

Author keywords

Altimetry; geophysical measurement techniques; remote sensing; sea ice; snow

Indexed keywords

ACCURATE MEASUREMENT; AIRBORNE DATA; AIRBORNE LASERS; AIRBORNE MEASUREMENTS; ALTIMETRY; ARCTIC SEA ICE; DIRECT MEASUREMENT; FIRST-YEAR; GEOPHYSICAL MEASUREMENTS; GREENLAND; ICE THICKNESS; IN-SITU; IN-SITU MEASUREMENT; LASER ALTIMETRY; LEVEL ICE; RADAR ALTIMETERS; RIDGED ICE; SEA-ICE THICKNESS; SNOW AND ICE; SNOW DEPTHS; UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS;

ANEROID ALTIMETERS; ESTIMATION; NASA; RADAR; REMOTE SENSING; SEA ICE; SNOW; SNOW MELTING SYSTEMS;

UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

AIRBORNE SENSING; ASSESSMENT METHOD; DATA SET; ICE THICKNESS; RADAR ALTIMETRY; SATELLITE ALTIMETRY; SATELLITE DATA; SEA ICE; SNOW COVER;

ARCTIC; GREENLAND; GREENLAND ICE SHEET; KANSAS; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84861348973     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TGRS.2011.2170843     Document Type: Article

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