Use of C-band scatterometer for sea ice edge identification

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 50, Issue 7 PART1, 2012, Pages 2669-2677

  Breivik, Lars Anders ^a   Eastwood, Steinar ^a   Lavergne, Thomas ^a  

^a NORWEGIAN METEOROLOGICAL INSTITUTE   (Norway)

Author keywords

About Bayesian method; satellite application; scatterometer; sea ice

Indexed keywords

ANTENNA CONFIGURATIONS; BAYESIAN APPROACHES; BAYESIAN METHODS; HIGH RESOLUTION SATELLITE IMAGES; ICE CHARTS; ICE CONDITIONS; ICE EDGE; ICE EDGE DETECTION; ICE SURFACES; INVERSE METHODOLOGY; MEASUREMENT GEOMETRY; MULTI SENSOR; NOISE PROBLEMS; OPEN WATER SURFACE; PASSIVE MICROWAVE DATA; SATELLITE APPLICATIONS; SCATTEROMETER DATA; SCATTEROMETERS; SEA-ICE EDGE;

BAYESIAN NETWORKS; EDGE DETECTION; METEOROLOGICAL INSTRUMENTS; PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS;

SEA ICE;

ANTENNA; ASCAT; BACKSCATTER; BAYESIAN ANALYSIS; GEOMETRY; MICROWAVE RADIOMETER; OPEN WATER; PROBABILITY; SATELLITE DATA; SATELLITE IMAGERY; SCATTEROMETER; SEA ICE;

EID: 84862990307     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TGRS.2012.2188898     Document Type: Article

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