Comparison of SSM/I and AMSR-E sea ice concentrations with ASPeCt ship observations around antarctica

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 53, Issue 4, 2015, Pages 1985-1996

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

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAMBURG   (Germany)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR METEOROLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Antarctic; Antarctic sea ice processes and climate (ASPeCt); passive microwave (PM) remote sensing; sea ice concentration (SIC); ship based observations (OBS)

Indexed keywords

NASA; REMOTE SENSING; SHIPS;

ANTARCTIC; ANTARCTIC SEA ICE; COLOCATIONS; CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; PASSIVE MICROWAVES; SEA ICE CONCENTRATION; SHIP OBSERVATIONS; SPATIO-TEMPORAL SCALE;

SEA ICE;

ALGORITHM; AMSR-E; BOOTSTRAPPING; CORRELATION; DATA SET; SEA ICE; SHIPBORNE MEASUREMENT; SSM-I;

ANTARCTICA;

EID: 84908040310     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TGRS.2014.2351497     Document Type: Article

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