Subject Index
- pack ice 270-271
- vector 72
ice reconnaissance 206,212
ice texture 226-227,265
- of Antarctic sea ice 160
- of MIZ features 116
ice thickness 202,216,230,237,241-249,
253
ice type 196,215,238,267,275
icebergs 160, 202
- detection 274-276
- limit 202
Iceland Sea 3
ice sheets 195
image pyramid 270
International Arctic Ocean Expedition
(IAOE) 101,102,105
J
Japanese Earth Resources Satellite
(JERS-1) 180
K
k-nearest neighbor 264
Kara Sea 265,266
Kiruna station 151
L
Labrador Coast 274
lake ice 195
lateral melt 23
leads 70,81,127,215,268
- formation 70
Lebedev's parameterization 248
M
Marginal Ice Zone (MIZ) 28, lll, 153,
158,268,271- 274
matched filtering 269
mathematical morphology 10,11,15
maximum likelihood classifier 223
McMurdo station 147,149,194-195
median filtering 18
melt onset 39,131,134,237,238, 250-251,
254
melt season length 137
meltponds 38,185
mesoscale features 111,115
microwave scattering 36,130,131
- advanced melt multiyear ice 44
- coefficient 42
- early melt multiyear ice 43
- melt onset multiyear ice 44
- surface/volume model 48
- temporal evolution of coefficient 51
- thin ice 105
- winter multiyear ice 43
Mould Bay 139
multi-layer perceptron 264
multiyear ice 218
- advanced melt microwave scattering
44
- early melt microwave scattering 43
- melt onset microwave scattering 44
- summer signature 23
- winter microwave scattering 43
- winter signature 23, 245, 248
N
NASA Scatterometer (NSCAT) 138
NASA Team algorithm (NT) 91,94
neural network 264
new ice 39, 217
nilas 37,154,218
noise
- associated with SAR imaging 215,
261-262
- filtering 18
North Atlantic 236
Northwest Territories 40
o
O'Higgins station 149
OKEAN satellite 4
onset of freezing 24
onset of melt 23,24
open water
- fraction 239,249-250,253
- scatterometer signature 162
operational ice monitoring 198,202,
212-213, 260, 277
Operational Linescan System (OLS) 146
optical flow 269
- pack ice 270-271
- vector 72
ice reconnaissance 206,212
ice texture 226-227,265
- of Antarctic sea ice 160
- of MIZ features 116
ice thickness 202,216,230,237,241-249,
253
ice type 196,215,238,267,275
icebergs 160, 202
- detection 274-276
- limit 202
Iceland Sea 3
ice sheets 195
image pyramid 270
International Arctic Ocean Expedition
(IAOE) 101,102,105
J
Japanese Earth Resources Satellite
(JERS-1) 180
K
k-nearest neighbor 264
Kara Sea 265,266
Kiruna station 151
L
Labrador Coast 274
lake ice 195
lateral melt 23
leads 70,81,127,215,268
- formation 70
Lebedev's parameterization 248
M
Marginal Ice Zone (MIZ) 28, lll, 153,
158,268,271- 274
matched filtering 269
mathematical morphology 10,11,15
maximum likelihood classifier 223
McMurdo station 147,149,194-195
median filtering 18
melt onset 39,131,134,237,238, 250-251,
254
melt season length 137
meltponds 38,185
mesoscale features 111,115
microwave scattering 36,130,131
- advanced melt multiyear ice 44
- coefficient 42
- early melt multiyear ice 43
- melt onset multiyear ice 44
- surface/volume model 48
- temporal evolution of coefficient 51
- thin ice 105
- winter multiyear ice 43
Mould Bay 139
multi-layer perceptron 264
multiyear ice 218
- advanced melt microwave scattering
44
- early melt microwave scattering 43
- melt onset microwave scattering 44
- summer signature 23
- winter microwave scattering 43
- winter signature 23, 245, 248
N
NASA Scatterometer (NSCAT) 138
NASA Team algorithm (NT) 91,94
neural network 264
new ice 39, 217
nilas 37,154,218
noise
- associated with SAR imaging 215,
261-262
- filtering 18
North Atlantic 236
Northwest Territories 40
o
O'Higgins station 149
OKEAN satellite 4
onset of freezing 24
onset of melt 23,24
open water
- fraction 239,249-250,253
- scatterometer signature 162
operational ice monitoring 198,202,
212-213, 260, 277
Operational Linescan System (OLS) 146
optical flow 269