Polarimetric Remote Sensing of Sea Ice

Abstract

The long-term goals of this research, in the Sea-Ice Electromagnetics Accelerated Research Initiative Program are to understand the electromagnetic properties of sea ice and their relationship to ice physical and morphological characteristics for developing and validating forward and inverse scattering models of sea ice. For this purpose, accurate polarimetric radar measurements of saline ice under controlled conditions are carried out at microwave frequencies in conjunction with ice characterization measurements to form the experimental basis for the model development and validation.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Sep 30, 1997
Accession Number
ADA628904

Entities

People

  • S. V. Nghiem

Organizations

  • California Institute of Technology

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Materials and Manufacturing Processes
  • Sensors
  • Space

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Algorithms
  • Atmospheric Sciences
  • Backscattering
  • C Band
  • Data Analysis
  • Geographic Regions
  • Geography
  • Ice
  • Jet Propulsion
  • Measurement
  • Military Research
  • Remote Sensing
  • Scattering
  • Scatterometers
  • Sea Ice
  • Synthetic Aperture Radar
  • Thermodynamic Processes

Fields of Study

  • Environmental science

Readers

  • Computational Modeling and Simulation
  • Image Processing and Computer Vision.
  • Polar and Arctic Studies