MONITORING SEA ICE IN SVALBARD: CALIBRATION OF ASAR DATA AND COLLECTION OF GROUND-TRUTH DATA

The measurement of sea ice distribution over time in Storfjorden sound, lying between the islands Spitsbergen and Edgeøya in the Svalbard archipelago, is of scientific interest to various inter-related disciplines. The most effective way to measure sea ice distribution is use satellite data. ENVISAT...

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Other Authors: The Pennsylvania State University CiteSeerX Archives
Format: Text
Language:English
Subjects:
Asar
Edgeøya
Svalbard
Svalbard Archipelago
Sea ice
Storfjorden
Spitsbergen
Online Access:http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.380.4761
http://earth.esa.int/workshops/salzburg04/papers_posters/4P13_3_hall_135.pdf
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Summary:The measurement of sea ice distribution over time in Storfjorden sound, lying between the islands Spitsbergen and Edgeøya in the Svalbard archipelago, is of scientific interest to various inter-related disciplines. The most effective way to measure sea ice distribution is use satellite data. ENVISAT wide swath scenes over Storfjorden were obtained during April 2004 in conjunction with co-incident ground truth observations. However to obtain the maximum amount of information from the satellite data, the data must first be calibrated. Presented in this paper is a method of deriving backscatter-corrected images using the B.E.S.T software. 1.

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