Detection and classification of sea ice from spaceborne multi-frequency synthetic aperture radar imagery and radar altimetry

• Main Author: Aldenhoff, Wiebke
• Language: unknown
• Published: 2020
• Subjects: Remote Sensing; Oceanography; Hydrology; Water Resources; Geosciences; Multidisciplinary; Beaufort Sea; sea ice classification; sea ice; sea ice concentration; Fram Strait; SAR imaging; radar altimetry; Arctic; The Sentinel; ice pack; Sea ice
• Online Access: https://research.chalmers.se/en/publication/515647

The sea ice cover in the Arctic is undergoing drastic changes. Since the start of satellite observations by microwave remote sensing in the late 1970's, the maximum summer sea ice extent has been decreasing and thereby causing a generally thinner and younger sea ice cover. Spaceborne radar remo...