Near-coastal circum-Antarctic iceberg size distributions determined from Synthetic Aperture Radar images

Remote Sensing of Environment

Volumn 156, Issue , 2015, Pages 561-569

  Wesche, Christine ^a   Dierking, Wolfgang ^a  

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

Author keywords

Iceberg mass; Icebergs; SAR; Southern Ocean

Indexed keywords

OCEANOGRAPHY; RADAR; SEA ICE; SIZE DISTRIBUTION;

AUTOMATED DETECTION; HIGH RESOLUTION SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR IMAGES; ICEBERG MASS; ICEBERGS; OCEANOGRAPHIC RESEARCH; REGIONAL VARIATION; SAR; SOUTHERN OCEAN;

SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR;

COASTAL ZONE; DATA ACQUISITION; ICEBERG; IMAGE RESOLUTION; OCEANOGRAPHY; PIXEL; RADAR IMAGERY; RADARSAT; SIZE DISTRIBUTION; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR;

ANTARCTICA;

EID: 84922211873     PISSN: 00344257     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.rse.2014.10.025     Document Type: Article

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