Validation and potential applications of Environment Canada Ice Concentration Extractor (ECICE) algorithm to Arctic ice by combining AMSR-E and QuikSCAT observations

Remote Sensing of Environment

Volumn 128, Issue , 2013, Pages 315-332

  Shokr, Mohammed ^a   Agnew, Thomas A ^a  

^a ENVIRONMENT CANADA   (Canada)

Author keywords

AMSR E; Arctic ice; Ice concentration; Multiyear ice; QuikSCAT; Retrieval algorithms; Sea ice

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER PROGRAMMING; NASA; SEA ICE;

ARCTIC ICE; ICE CONCENTRATION; MULTI-YEAR ICES; QUIKSCAT; RETRIEVAL ALGORITHMS;

METEOROLOGICAL INSTRUMENTS;

ALGORITHM; AMSR-E; DATA SET; ICE COVER; MICROWAVE RADIATION; OBSERVATIONAL METHOD; POLARIZATION; QUIKSCAT; SEA ICE; SEASONAL VARIATION; SENSOR;

ARCTIC OCEAN;

EID: 84868709193     PISSN: 00344257     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.rse.2012.10.016     Document Type: Article

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