Reconstructing hydrographic change in Petersen Bay, Ellesmere Island, Canada, inferred from SAR imagery

• Published in: Remote Sensing of Environment
• Main Authors: White, A. (Adrienne), Mueller, D. (Derek), Copland, L. (Luke)
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: 2015
• Subjects: Arctic; Epishelf lake; Ice shelf; Ice-dammed lake; Sea ice; Synthetic aperture radar; Canada; Dammed Lake; Ellesmere Island; Petersen; ice core; Ice Shelf
• Online Access: https://ir.library.carleton.ca/pub/8416; https://doi.org/10.1016/j.rse.2015.04.017

Synthetic aperture radar (SAR) satellite imagery was used to reconstruct the change in limnological conditions adjacent to an Arctic ice shelf by examining the backscatter values of coastal ice in mid-winter scenes. High SAR backscatter values (>-6dB) suggest that an ice-dammed lake was present a...