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Nimbus satellite data for polar ice survey

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  27 October 2009

John E. Sissala,
Romeo R. Sabatini and
Hans J. Ackermann
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Repetitive surveillance by polar-orbiting meteorological satellites can monitor the distribution, variability, and behaviour of sea ice in both Arctic and Antarctic regions. This article reviews some of the applications of Nimbus satellite data to the polar regions. For a good review of applications of NOAA (formerly ESSA) satellite data to the polar regions, see Swithinbank (1969, 1970, 1971).

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Polar Record , Volume 16 , Issue 102 , September 1972, pp. 367 - 373
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1972

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