Thin ice detection in the barents and kara seas with AMSR-E and SSMIS radiometer data

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 53, Issue 9, 2015, Pages 5036-5053

  Mäkynen, Marko ^a   Similä, Markku ^a  

^a FINNISH METEOROLOGICAL INSTITUTE   (Finland)

Author keywords

Arctic; passive microwave remote sensing; polynya; thin sea ice

Indexed keywords

ERRORS; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; MICROWAVE SENSORS; RADIOMETERS; REMOTE SENSING; SEA ICE; STATISTICAL MECHANICS;

ADVANCED MICROWAVE SCANNING RADIOMETER-EARTH OBSERVING SYSTEM (AMSR-E); ARCTIC; LINEAR DISCRIMINATION ANALYSIS; MEAN AIR TEMPERATURES; MODERATE RESOLUTION IMAGING SPECTRORADIOMETER; PASSIVE MICROWAVE REMOTE SENSING; POLYNYA; SPECIAL SENSOR MICROWAVE IMAGERS;

ICE;

AIR TEMPERATURE; AMSR-E; DATA SET; DETECTION METHOD; ERROR ANALYSIS; ICE THICKNESS; IMAGE CLASSIFICATION; MICROWAVE IMAGERY; MODIS; POLARIZATION; POLYNYA; RADIOMETER; REMOTE SENSING; SATELLITE DATA; SEA ICE; THRESHOLD; TWO-DIMENSIONAL MODELING;

ARCTIC; ARCTIC OCEAN; BARENTS SEA; KARA SEA;

EID: 85027949803     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TGRS.2015.2416393     Document Type: Article

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