Investigating high-resolution AMSR2 sea ice concentrations during the February 2013 fracture event in the beaufort sea

Remote Sensing

Volumn 6, Issue 5, 2014, Pages 3841-3856

  Beitsch, Alexander ^a   Kaleschke, Lars ^a   Kern, Stefan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAMBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

AMSR2; ARTIST sea ice algorithm; Passive microwave remote sensing; Sea ice concentration

Indexed keywords

RADIOMETERS; SATELLITE IMAGERY;

ADVANCED MICROWAVE SCANNING RADIOMETER; AMSR2; BRIGHTNESS TEMPERATURES; MODERATE RESOLUTION IMAGING SPECTRORADIOMETER; REGION OF INTEREST; SEA ICE CONCENTRATION; TRUE COLOR IMAGERIES; TURBULENCE INTERACTIONS;

SEA ICE;

EID: 84901504236     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20724292     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/rs6053841     Document Type: Article

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