C-band Backscatter Measurements of Winter Sea Ice

• Main Authors: Mark R. Drinkwater, Reza Hosseinmostafa, Prasad Gogineni., Prasad Gogineni
• Other Authors: The Pennsylvania State University CiteSeerX Archives
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: 1995
• Subjects: Antarctic; Arctic; Breaker; Weddell; Weddell Sea; Antarc*; Sea ice
• Online Access: http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.41.9794; http://polar.jpl.nasa.gov/Publications/ijrs_v16_17_1995.pdf

. During the 1992 Winter Weddell Gyre Study, a C-band scatterometer was used from the German ice-breaker R/V Polarstern to obtain detailed shipborne measurement scans of Antarctic sea ice. The frequency-modulated continuous-wave (FM-CW) radar operated at 4.3 GHz and acquired like- (VV) and cross-pol...