Sea ice motion tracking from sequential dual-polarization RADARSAT-2 images

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 52, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 121-136

  Komarov, Alexander S ^a   Barber, David G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANITOBA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Control points; Cross polarization; Feature tracking; RADARSAT 2; Sea ice motion; Synthetic aperture radar (SAR)

Indexed keywords

CONTROL POINT; CROSS POLARIZATIONS; FEATURE-TRACKING; RADARSAT-2; SEA ICE MOTION;

ALGORITHMS; IMAGE MATCHING; POLARIZATION; SEA ICE;

SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR;

ALGORITHM; OPERATIONS TECHNOLOGY; POLARIZATION; RADARSAT; SATELLITE IMAGERY; SEA ICE; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR; UNITED NATIONS; VELOCITY;

CANADA;

EID: 84890427884     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TGRS.2012.2236845     Document Type: Article

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