Title :
On the joint use of QSCAT and QRAD over the Arctic and Antarctic oceans
Author :
Ezraty, Robert ; Jones, W. Lindwood ; Zec, Josko
Author_Institution :
Dept. d´´Oceanogr. Spatiale, IFREMER, Plouzane, France
Abstract :
On an individual orbit basis, QSCAT data does not permit an efficient separation of sea ice from open water. It is shown how the use of the simultaneous H-pol temperatures provided by the radiometer-like processing of the data, QRAD, improves the sorting of sea ice areas from open ocean zones
Keywords :
oceanographic techniques; remote sensing by radar; sea ice; spaceborne radar; Antarctic Ocean; Arctic Ocean; H-pol temperature; QRAD; QSCAT; measurement technique; ocean; radar remote sensing; sea ice; sea surface; spaceborne radar; Antarctica; Arctic; Extraterrestrial measurements; Measurement standards; Oceans; Polarization; Radar measurements; Radiometry; Sea ice; Sea measurements;
Conference_Titel :
Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium, 2000. Proceedings. IGARSS 2000. IEEE 2000 International
Conference_Location :
Honolulu, HI
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-6359-0
DOI :
10.1109/IGARSS.2000.858074
