Sea ice characterization with a millimeter wave scatterometer

Author

Isham, John D. ; Swift, C.T.

Author_Institution

Microwave Remote Sensing Lab., Massachusetts Univ., Amherst, MA, USA

Volume

1

fYear

1994

fDate

8-12 Aug 1994

Firstpage

491

Abstract

The Microwave Remote Sensing Laboratory (MIRSL) of the University of Massachusetts at Amherst operates a 35 GHz scatterometer built around an HP 8510 network analyzer. This instrument was used in January, 1993 as part of a multi-institution experiment at the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Cold Regions Research and Engineering Laboratory (CRREL) in Hanover, New Hampshire. During the course of this experiment, 35 GHz; backscatter data was obtained for several incidence angles and four polarizations on an outdoor saline ice sheet under a variety of conditions, including ice growth to 7 cm, progressive stages of ice surface roughness, and ice sheet snow coverage. The observed changes in normalized radar cross section and depolarization due to incidence angle, surface roughness, ice salinity, ice thickness, ice and air temperature and snow cover are discussed

Keywords

backscatter; electromagnetic wave scattering; oceanographic techniques; radar applications; radar cross-sections; radar imaging; radar polarimetry; remote sensing; remote sensing by radar; sea ice; snow; 35 GHz; CRREL; MIRSL; backscatter; characterization; depolarization; ice salinity; ice thickness; incidence angle; measurement technique; millimeter wave scatterometer; mm wave millimetric EHF; normalized radar cross section; polarization; radar polarimetry; radar remote sensing; radar scattering; radiowave reflection; sea ice; snow cover; surface roughness; temperature; Backscatter; Ice surface; Instruments; Laboratories; Millimeter wave radar; Ocean temperature; Radar measurements; Remote sensing; Sea ice; Snow;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium, 1994. IGARSS '94. Surface and Atmospheric Remote Sensing: Technologies, Data Analysis and Interpretation., International

Conference_Location

Pasadena, CA

Print_ISBN

0-7803-1497-2

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/IGARSS.1994.399162

Filename

399162