Baltic sea ice concentration estimation based on C-band dual-polarized SAR data

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 52, Issue 9, 2014, Pages 5558-5566

  Karvonen, Juha ^a  

^a FINNISH METEOROLOGICAL INSTITUTE   (Finland)

Author keywords

C band; dual polarized synthetic aperture radar (SAR); HH HV; ice concentration; multilayer perceptron (MLP); SAR

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; DATA PROCESSING; MICROWAVE DEVICES; SEA ICE;

C-BAND; DUAL-POLARIZED; HH/HV; ICE CONCENTRATION; MULTI LAYER PERCEPTRON; SAR;

SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR;

ALGORITHM; DATA ACQUISITION; ESTIMATION METHOD; ICE FIELD; RADIOMETER; SEA ICE; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; BALTIC SEA; FINLAND;

EID: 84900805588     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TGRS.2013.2290331     Document Type: Article

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