A comparison of shipborne and airborne electromagnetic methods for Antarctic sea ice thickness measurements

Exploration Geophysics

Volumn 34, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 46-50

  Reid, James E ^a   Vrbancich, Julian ^b   Worby, Anthony P ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TASMANIA   (Australia)

^b DEFENCE SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY ORGANISATION   (Australia)

^c ANTARCTIC CLIMATE AND ECOSYSTEMS COOPERATIVE RESEARCH CENTRE   (Australia)

Author keywords

Airborne electromagnetics; Antarctic sea ice thickness; One dimensional inversion; Three dimensional modelling

Indexed keywords

EID: 85009343119     PISSN: 08123985     EISSN: 18347533     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1071/EG03046     Document Type: Article

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