Seasonal and diurnal variations in SAR signatures of landfast sea ice

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 varyin...

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Published in:IEEE transactions on geoscience and remote sensing 1992-05, Vol.30 (3), p.638-642
Main Authors: Barber, D.G., LeDrew, E.F., Flett, D.G., Shokr, M., Falkingham, J.
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Algorithm design and analysis
Data mining
Earth, ocean, space
Exact sciences and technology
External geophysics
Geoscience
Ice surface
Marine
Monitoring
Physics of the oceans
Polarization
Sea ice
Sea surface
Synthetic aperture radar
Testing
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Summary: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.< >
ISSN:0196-2892
1558-0644
DOI:10.1109/36.142948