Waveform classification of airborne synthetic aperture radar altimeter over Arctic sea ice

Cryosphere

Volumn 7, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 1315-1324

  Zygmuntowska, M ^a   Khvorostovsky, K ^a   Helm, V ^b   Sandven, S ^a  

^a NANSEN ENVIRONMENTAL AND REMOTE SENSING CENTER   (Norway)

^b ALFRED WEGENER INSTITUTE FOR POLAR AND MARINE RESEARCH   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY ASSESSMENT; AIRBORNE SURVEY; ALTIMETER; ARCTIC ENVIRONMENT; BAYESIAN ANALYSIS; CRYOSAT-2; ICE FREE CORRIDOR; ICE THICKNESS; SEA ICE; SIGNAL; SNOW ACCUMULATION; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR; WAVEFORM ANALYSIS;

ARCTIC OCEAN;

EID: 84883170536     PISSN: 19940416     EISSN: 19940424     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/tc-7-1315-2013     Document Type: Article

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