C-band radar polarimetry - Useful for detection of icebergs in sea ice?

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 52, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 25-37

  Dierking, Wolfgang ^a   Wesche, Christine ^a  

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

Author keywords

Icebergs; Polarimetry; Sea ice

Indexed keywords

CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; CROSS POLARIZATIONS; ICEBERGS; POLARIMETRIC PARAMETERS; RADAR POLARIMETRY; SPATIAL PATTERNS; SYSTEMATIC CHANGES; VOLUME SCATTERING;

ELLIPSOMETRY; POLARIMETERS; TRACKING RADAR;

SEA ICE;

DISCRIMINANT ANALYSIS; ICEBERG; PARAMETERIZATION; RADAR; SEA ICE;

EID: 84890429751     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TGRS.2012.2234756     Document Type: Article

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