Multiyear arctic sea ice classification using QuikSCAT

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 50, Issue 9, 2012, Pages 3317-3326

  Swan, Aaron M ^a   Long, David G ^b  

^a ImSAR   (United States)

^b Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering   (United States)

Author keywords

Ice classification; microwave remote sensing; QuikSCAT; sea ice

Indexed keywords

ARCTIC SEA ICE; CANADIAN ICE SERVICES; CLASSIFICATION METHODS; FIRST-YEAR; GLOBAL TEMPERATURES; HIGH RESOLUTION; ICE CHARTS; ICE CLASSIFICATION; ICE COVER; INTERANNUAL; KU-BAND; LONG-TERM TREND; MICROWAVE REMOTE SENSING; QUIKSCAT; SCATTEROMETER IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION ALGORITHMS; SEAWINDS; TIME-DEPENDENT;

BACKSCATTERING; CLIMATE CHANGE; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; INDUSTRIAL APPLICATIONS; METEOROLOGICAL INSTRUMENTS; REMOTE SENSING;

SEA ICE;

ALGORITHM; ANNUAL VARIATION; BACKSCATTER; CLASSIFICATION; HISTOGRAM; ICE COVER; QUIKSCAT; SATELLITE IMAGERY; SCATTEROMETER; SEA ICE; SEASONAL VARIATION; THRESHOLD; TREND ANALYSIS;

ARCTIC OCEAN;

EID: 84865697873     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TGRS.2012.2184123     Document Type: Article

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