Study of iceberg B10A using scatterometer data

Author

Stephen, Haroon ; Long, David G.

Author_Institution

MERS Lab., Brigham Young Univ., Provo, UT, USA

Volume

3

fYear

2000

fDate

2000

Firstpage

1340

Abstract

The Antarctic continent continually releases glacial ice into the ocean in the form of icebergs calving from glaciers and ice shelves. Microwave scatterometers can provide useful information about the spatial and temporal behavior of large icebergs. In this paper, results from the observation of B10A during 1992-2000, using ERS-1/2 AMI Scatterometer (ESCAT), NASA Scatterometer (NSCAT) and SeaWinds on QuikScat (QSCAT) data are presented. Multi-sensor analysis shows a general consistency of C-band σ⁰ measurements from ESCAT and Ku-band σ⁰ measurements from NSCAT and SeaWinds. Certain subtle differences are observed which reflect the frequency dependence of iceberg σ⁰ measurements

Keywords

glaciology; oceanographic regions; oceanographic techniques; remote sensing by radar; sea ice; spaceborne radar; AD 1992 to 2000; AMI; Antarctica; B10A; C-band; ERS; ESCAT; Ku-band; NSCAT; QSCAT; QuikScat; SeaWinds; Southern Ocean; berg; frequency dependence; glacial ice; glaciology; iceberg; measurement technique; ocean; radar remote sensing; radar scatterometry; remote sensing; sea ice; Ambient intelligence; Antarctica; Continents; Frequency dependence; Frequency measurement; Ice; NASA; Oceans; Radar measurements; Sea measurements;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium, 2000. Proceedings. IGARSS 2000. IEEE 2000 International

Conference_Location

Honolulu, HI

Print_ISBN

0-7803-6359-0

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/IGARSS.2000.858112

Filename

858112