The discrimination of sea ice types using SAR backscatter statistics

X-band (HH) synthetic aperture radar (SAR) data of sea ice collected during the Marginal Ice Zone Experiment in March and April of 1987 was statistically analyzed with respect to discriminating open water, first-year ice, multiyear ice, and Odden. Odden are large expanses of nilas ice that rapidly f...

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Main Authors: Shuchman, Robert A., Wackerman, Christopher C., Maffett, Andrew L., Onstott, Robert G., Sutherland, Laura L.
Language:unknown
Published: 1989
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Online Access:http://ntrs.nasa.gov/search.jsp?R=19910030932