On the estimation of melt pond fraction on the arctic sea ice with ENVISAT WSM images

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 52, Issue 11, 2014, Pages 7366-7379

  Mäkynen, Marko ^a   Kern, Stefan ^b   Rösel, Anja ^b   Pedersen, Leif Toudal ^c  

^a FINNISH METEOROLOGICAL INSTITUTE   (Finland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HAMBURG   (Germany)

^c DANISH METEOROLOGICAL INSTITUTE   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Arctic; melt ponds; radar remote sensing; sea ice

Indexed keywords

DATA VISUALIZATION; GEODETIC SATELLITES; LAKES; MELTING; MICROWAVE DEVICES; PONDING; RADIOMETERS; SATELLITE IMAGERY; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR;

ARCTIC; MELT PONDS; MICROWAVE RADIOMETERS; MODERATE RESOLUTION IMAGING SPECTRORADIOMETER; OPTICAL SATELLITES; RADAR REMOTE SENSING; RETRIEVAL ALGORITHMS; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR (SAR) IMAGES;

SEA ICE;

CLIMATE FORCING; CORRELATION; ESTIMATION METHOD; MELTWATER; MODIS; SATELLITE IMAGERY; SEA ICE; TIME SERIES;

ARCTIC OCEAN;

EID: 84902076202     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TGRS.2014.2311476     Document Type: Article

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