A comparison of snow depth on sea ice retrievals using airborne altimeters and an AMSR-E simulator

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 50, Issue 8, 2012, Pages 3027-3040

  Cavalieri, Donald J ^a,b   Markus, Thorsten ^b   Ivanoff, Alvaro ^b,c   Miller, Jeff A ^b,d   Brucker, Ludovic ^b,e   Sturm, Matthew ^f   Maslanik, James A ^g   Heinrichs, John F ^h   Gasiewski, Albin J ^g   Leuschen, Carl ⁱ   Krabill, William ^b,j   Sonntag, John ^b,k  

^a Cryospheric Sciences Laboratory ^*

^b NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

^c ADNET SYSTEMS INC   (United States)

^d Goddard Earth Sciences Technology and Research Studies and Investigations   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITIES SPACE RESEARCH ASSOCIATION   (United States)

^f Engineering Research and Development Center   (United States)

^g UCB 450   (United States)

^h FORT HAYS STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

ⁱ UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS   (United States)

^j URS Corporation   (United States)

^k URS CORPORATION   (United States)

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Author keywords

Airborne altimetry; passive microwave remote sensing; sea ice; snow on sea ice

Indexed keywords

ADVANCED MICROWAVE SCANNING RADIOMETER FOR THE EARTH OBSERVING SYSTEM; AIRBORNE ALTIMETERS; AIRBORNE ALTIMETRY; AIRCRAFT MEASUREMENT; BEAUFORT SEA; BRIGHTNESS TEMPERATURES; DATA SETS; FIELD CAMPAIGN; PASSIVE MICROWAVE REMOTE SENSING; POLARIMETRIC SCANNING RADIOMETER; RADAR ALTIMETERS; SNOW DEPTHS; STANDARD DEVIATION; UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO; UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS;

AERODYNAMICS; AIRCRAFT; INTERNET PROTOCOLS; NASA; OPTICAL RADAR; REMOTE SENSING; SEA ICE; SIMULATORS; SNOW MELTING SYSTEMS;

METEOROLOGICAL INSTRUMENTS;

AIRBORNE SURVEY; AIRBORNE THEMATIC MAPPER; ALTIMETER; AMSR-E; BRIGHTNESS TEMPERATURE; DATA ACQUISITION; DATA SET; LIDAR; POLYNYA; SEA ICE; SNOW COVER;

ALASKA; ARCTIC OCEAN; BEAUFORT SEA; CHUKCHI SEA; ELSON LAGOON; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84864286763     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TGRS.2011.2180535     Document Type: Article

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