Observations of Snow Water Equivalent Change on Landfast First-Year Sea Ice in Winter Using Synthetic Aperture Radar Data

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 45, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 1005-1015

  Yackel, John J ^a   Barber, David G ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MANITOBA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Microwave imaging; scattering; sea ice; snow; synthetic aperture radar (SAR)

Indexed keywords

EID: 85008053891     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: 15580644     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TGRS.2006.890418     Document Type: Article

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