High-altitude radar measurements of ice thickness over the antarctic and greenland ice sheets as a part of operation icebridge

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 51, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 742-754

  Li, Jilu ^a   Paden, John ^a   Leuschen, Carl ^a   Rodriguez Morales, Fernando ^a   Hale, Richard D ^a   Arnold, Emily J ^a   Crowe, Reid ^a   Gomez Garcia, Daniel ^a   Gogineni, Prasad ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS   (United States)

Author keywords

High altitude ice sheet measurements; Ice surface clutter reduction; Multichannel airborne radar

Indexed keywords

AIRBORNE LIDAR; AIRBORNE RADARS; ANTARCTICA; CENTER FREQUENCY; CRITICAL PARTS; DEPTH SOUNDERS; GREENLAND; GREENLAND ICE SHEET; ICE SHEET; ICE SURFACES; ICE THICKNESS; INTERNAL LAYERS; LIDAR MEASUREMENTS; MINIMUM VARIANCE DISTORTIONLESS RESPONSE; PROCESSING ALGORITHMS; RANGE SIDELOBES; ROUGH SURFACES; SMOOTH SURFACE; SURFACE CLUTTER;

ALGORITHMS; ARRAY PROCESSING; CLUTTER (INFORMATION THEORY); GLACIERS; ICE; NASA; OPTICAL RADAR; RADAR SYSTEMS;

RADAR MEASUREMENT;

ACOUSTIC EQUIPMENT; AIRBORNE SENSING; AIRCRAFT; ALGORITHM; ALTITUDE; DATA PROCESSING; ICE SHEET; ICE THICKNESS; ICESAT; INSTRUMENTATION; LIDAR; RADAR IMAGERY; VARIANCE ANALYSIS;

ANTARCTICA; ARCTIC; GREENLAND; GREENLAND ICE SHEET;

EID: 84872933665     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TGRS.2012.2203822     Document Type: Article

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