Subject Index
A
advanced melt 39
aircraft ice reconnaissance 206
Alaska SAR Facility (ASF) 142,151,
189-200,213-214
- image distribution 190
Alaskan Coast 139
albedo 59
ALOS 146,191,199
Antarctic sea ice 131
- central ice pack 158
- difference from Arctic sea ice 151
Arctic Ice Dynamics Joint Experiment
(AIDJEX) 70
Arctic pack ice 69
area correlation 269
autumn freeze-up 135
B
backscatter 216-217,237
- histogram 136, 239
- regional winter C-band 157-161
- snapshot signature 161
- summer SAR characteristics 182
- variability 131,135,180-181,182,264
- winter SAR characteristics 182
Baffin Bay 274
Baltic Sea 209
Barrow Strait 41
Beaufort Sea 71, 131, 139, 207, 221, 223
Bellinghausen Sea 149
Bering Sea 112
boreal forests 195
boreal wetlands 195
boundary matching 272
buoys 167-170,268
C
calibration of SAR 215-216
Canadian Archipelago 139,219
Chukchi Sea 71,112,115,116,139,205
clustering 10
- isodata 165
- supervised 163
CMOD4 algorithm 162
conglomerated ice types 57
Coordinated Eastern Arctic Research
Experiment (CEAREX'88) 100
D
data fusion 92,222,271
- data level 92-93
- decision level 92-93
- feature level 94,95
- hybrid 92,94
E
early melt 38
East Greenland Sea 223
East Siberian Sea 224
eddies 111, 115
edge detection 14,262, 264, 267
edge point trimming algorithm 76
Electronically Scanning Microwave
Radiometer (ESMR) 4
emmissivity characteristics of sea ice 94
energy balance 37,40-42
energy flow 35
ENVISAT 5,191, 199
ERS scatterometer (EScat) 138,150,162
Eurasian Basin 3
European Remote Sensing satellite
(ERS-1, ERS-2) 5,191
expert systems 227-228