Seasonal and diurnal variations in SAR signatures of landfast sea ice

Author

Barber, D.G. ; LeDrew, E.F. ; Flett, D.G. ; Shokr, M. ; Falkingham, J.

Author_Institution

Inst. for Space & Terrestrial Sci., Fac. of Environ. Studies, Waterloo Univ., Ont., Canada

Volume

30

Issue

3

fYear

1992

fDate

5/1/1992 12:00:00 AM

Firstpage

638

Lastpage

642

Abstract

The seasonal and diurnal changes in total distributions of three fast ice sites, validated during the Seasonal Sea Ice Monitoring Site (SIMS ´90) experiment, are presented. Rationale for the observed changes are provided using previous scatterometer and SAR observations of the seasonally varying snow-covered sea ice surface. The implications of the stability and rapidity of the observed changes are considered important in the development of semiautomated feature extraction algorithms, required by the operational sea ice community, and in monitoring the seasonal evolution of a snow-covered sea ice surface

Keywords

oceanographic regions; oceanographic techniques; remote sensing by radar; sea ice; AD 1990; Arctic Ocean; Canada; SAR signatures; SIMS ´90; Seasonal Sea Ice Monitoring Site; coast; diurnal variations; fast ice; landfast sea ice; measurement; ocean; remote sensing; season; seasonal variation; semiautomated feature extraction algorithms; snow-covered sea ice; synthetic aperture radar; technique; Algorithm design and analysis; Data mining; Geoscience; Ice surface; Monitoring; Polarization; Sea ice; Sea surface; Synthetic aperture radar; Testing;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Geoscience and Remote Sensing, IEEE Transactions on

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

0196-2892

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/36.142948

Filename

142948