Validating ICESat over thick sea ice in the Northern Canada Basin

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 51, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 2188-2200

  Connor, Laurence N ^a   Farrell, Sinéad Louise ^a,b   McAdoo, David C ^a   Krabill, William B ^c   Manizade, Serdar ^c  

^a NOAA EARTH SYSTEM RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

^c NASA HEADQUARTERS   (United States)

Author keywords

Altimetry; laser radar; satellite applications; sea ice; snow

Indexed keywords

AIRCRAFT ACQUISITIONS; ALTIMETRY; DIGITAL PHOTOGRAPHY; GEOSCIENCE LASER ALTIMETER SYSTEMS; GLOBAL CLIMATE MODEL; LAND ELEVATION SATELLITES; SATELLITE APPLICATIONS; SEA ICE THICKNESS AND VOLUMES;

AIRCRAFT; ANEROID ALTIMETERS; DOPPLER RADAR; ESTIMATION; INTERNET PROTOCOLS; LOADING; NASA; OCEAN CURRENTS; OPTICAL RADAR; RADIO ALTIMETERS; SATELLITES; SEA ICE; SNOW;

UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

DATA SET; ICE THICKNESS; ICESAT; LASER; SATELLITE ALTIMETRY; SEA ICE; SEA SURFACE HEIGHT; SNOW COVER;

ARCTIC OCEAN; CANADA BASIN;

EID: 84875709815     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TGRS.2012.2211603     Document Type: Article

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