… This book addresses the current technology of the microwave observation of sea ice. … In
this chapter, we address the sea ice properties that are important to microwave remote sensing. …

… microwave remote sensing to the study of sea ice. With the December 1972 launch of the
Nimbus 5 electrically scanning microwave … detailed study of global sea ice variability for the first …

… that in the remote sensing of sea ice, combined passive and active microwave techniques
offer the most promise. Bearing in mind that various aspects of sea-ice research need imagery …

… and validate microwave remote sensing techniques for sea ice research and operational ice
… Consequently, airborne SAR images of sea ice and surrounding open ocean were obtained …

… subsequent sections in this paper will review the sea ice and ocean parameters that may be
derived from satellite remote sensing and the remote-sensing techniques involved. S ea ice …

… of algorithms to retrieve sea ice concentration from microwave satellite radiometry data.
Such an algorithm is based solely on a model of emissivity of the “sea surface – sea ice – snow …

… Finally, we discuss the annual evolution of the Arctic system through snow thermodynamic …
microwave remote sensing that have yet to be defined from an annual perspective in the Arctic…

… Arctic sea ice types and partial concentrations using microwave satellite observations to fit
the Antarctic sea ice … produce our sea ice types as an output variable, but rather sea ice age – …

… of microwave radiation within the ice. Optimal for sea ice microwave remote sensing in terms
of … Therefore satellite microwave remote sensing of sea ice is a trade-off between bearable …

… microwave measurement of sea-ice were implemented and inter-compared. Daily, monthly
and annual Arctic sea-ice … the algorithms using daily microwave brightness temperatures from …