Multi year sea ice concentration mapping using passive and active microwave satellite data

Author

Shalina, Elena V. ; Johannessen, Ola M.

Author_Institution

Sci. Found. Nansen Int. Environ. & Remote Sensing Centre, St. Petersburg

fYear

2008

fDate

11-14 March 2008

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

4

Abstract

Though changes of the full ice cover in the Arctic are well described due to availability for processing SMMR/SSMI passive microwave data, changes of the composition of the Arctic ice cover, in terms of ice types still need to be quantified, at least for winter season. Algorithms for mapping multiyear ice concentrations based on passive microwave data suffer from a number of problems. In this paper, those problems are described and it has been shown that QuikSCAT scatterometer data can add complimentary information to that available from passive microwave, which can assist in fixing the boundary between first-year and multiyear ice and in removing erroneously classified by passive microwave algorithm multiyear ice in the ice edge area.

Keywords

radiometry; remote sensing; remote sensing by radar; sea ice; spaceborne radar; AD 1978 to1998; Arctic ice cover; QuikSCAT scatterometer data; SMMR; SSM/I; Scanning Multichannel Microwave Radiometer; Special Sensor Microwave Imagers; active microwave satellite data; ice types; passive microwave algorithm; passive microwave satellite data; sea ice concentration mapping; Arctic; Brightness temperature; Ice surface; Microwave measurements; Monitoring; Ocean temperature; Satellites; Sea ice; Sea measurements; Sea surface; Arctic; microwave measurements; sea ice; sea ice type;

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.2008.4579513

Filename

4579513