The Advanced Passive Microwave Scanning Radiometer AMSR2 which was launched by JAXA in May 2012 on-board GCOM-W satellite provides brightness temperature data that are used to estimate sea ice concentration, the fundamental parameter that is used to monitor the sea ice cover.
Detailed validation of AMSR2 sea ice concentration data using Modis data in the Sea of Okhotsk
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