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Telecommunications and Radio Engineering

ISSN for PRINT: 0040-2508

Institutional price:	$4518.00
Issues per year:	20

Best Paper Award Selection - Editorial Board Site

2001, Volume56

183 pages

Issue price - $394.00

Analysis of Ice Conditions in Arctic Using the Data from the Side-Looking Radar and Microwave Radiometer of the "Okean-01" Satellite Series

Aleksei Mikhailovich Volkov
Doctor of Sciences (Engineering). Director of the Center of Program Research, Russian Aerospace Agency, Russia

Vladimir Dmitrievich Grishchenko
Candidate of Sciences (Geography). Deputy Director of the Arctic and Antarctic Research Institute, Russia

Victor Sergeevich Loshchilov
Candidate of Sciences (Geography), Senior Researcher of the Arctic and Antarctic Research Institute, Russia

Aleksandr Petrovich Pichugin
Candidate of Sciences (Phys.-Math.), Ukr.SSR State Prize Winner, Head of Department in the Center of Program Research, Russian Aerospace Agency, Russia

Irina Sergeevna Skuratova
Candidate of Sciences (Phys.-Math.), Senior Researcher in the Center of Program Research, Russian Aerospace Agency, Russia

ABSTRACT

A technique for calibrating data from the RM-08 microwave radiometer of an Okean-01 satellite and converting them to brightness temperatures is considered. Methods and results of interpreting thermal images of sea ice are presented and compared with the results of interpreting infrared images from the NOAA satellite.