Spatial and Temporal Monitoring 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. - IFAC-CNR, Florence

Volume

5

fYear

2008

fDate

7-11 July 2008

Abstract

The Antarctic plateau is a part of Antarctic 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 optics; atmospheric techniques; glaciology; radiometry; spatiotemporal phenomena; AD 2005 to 2007; AMSR-E; Antarctica; Earth science; East Antarctic plateau; South Pole; atmospheric science; glaciology; multifrequency microwave emission; passive microwave data; spatial monitoring; temporal monitoring; Antarctica; Brightness temperature; Ice; Microwave radiometry; Monitoring; Ocean temperature; Radiometers; Remote sensing; Sea surface; Snow; AMSR-E; Antarctica; Microwave Radiometry;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium, 2008. IGARSS 2008. IEEE International

Conference_Location

Boston, MA

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-2807-6

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-4244-2808-3

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/IGARSS.2008.4780019

Filename

4780019