Sea and Freshwater Ice Concentration from VIIRS on Suomi NPP and the Future JPSS Satellites

Information on ice is important for shipping, weather forecasting, and climate monitoring. Historically, ice cover has been detected and ice concentration has been measured using relatively low-resolution space-based passive microwave data. This study presents an algorithm to detect ice and estimate...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Yinghui Liu, Jeffrey Key, Robert Mahoney
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: MDPI AG 2016-06-01
Series:Remote Sensing
Subjects:
ice
Online Access:http://www.mdpi.com/2072-4292/8/6/523