Monitoring of temporal and spatial variability of the East-Antarctic plateau using passive microwave data

Author

Macelloni, Giovanni ; Brogioni, Marco ; Paloscia, Simonetta ; Pampaloni, Paolo ; Pettinato, Simone ; Santi, Emanuele

Author_Institution

Inst. of Appl. Phys., Nat. Res. Council, Firenze

fYear

2008

fDate

11-14 March 2008

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

4

Abstract

The Antarctic plateau is a part of Antarctica extending for a few hundred kilometers around the South Pole with an average elevation close to 3000 m a.s.l.. This area provides unique opportunities for various scientific disciplines including Glaciology, Atmospheric and Earth Sciences. In this paper temporal and spatial variability of multi-frequency microwave emission from the East Antarctic plateau by using AMSR-E data collected from 2005 to 2007 is analyzed.

Keywords

atmospheric techniques; glaciology; microwave measurement; radiometry; remote sensing; AD 2005 to 2007; AMSR-E data; South Pole; east Antarctic plateau; glaciology; multifrequency microwave emission; passive microwave data; spatial variability; temporal variability; Antarctica; Brightness temperature; Ice surface; Microwave radiometry; Monitoring; Ocean temperature; Sea surface; Snow; Surface morphology; Surface topography; AMSR-E; Antarctica; Microwave Radiometer;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Microwave Radiometry and Remote Sensing of the Environment, 2008. MICRORAD 2008

Conference_Location

Firenze

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-1986-9

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-4244-1987-6

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/MICRAD.2008.4579497

Filename

4579497