Airborne SnowSAR data at X- and Ku- bands over boreal forest, alpine and tundra snow cover
The European Space Agency SnowSAR instrument is a side looking, dual polarized (VV/VH), X/Ku band synthetic aperture radar (SAR), operable from a small aircraft. Between 2010 and 2013, the instrument was deployed at several sites in Northern Finland, Austrian Alps, and northern Canada. The purpose o...
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ftcopernicus:oai:publications.copernicus.org:essdd96343 2023-05-15T16:22:24+02:00 Airborne SnowSAR data at X- and Ku- bands over boreal forest, alpine and tundra snow cover Lemmetyinen, Juha Cohen, Juval Kontu, Anna Vehviläinen, Juho Hannula, Henna-Reetta Merkouriadi, Ioanna Scheiblauer, Stefan Rott, Helmut Nagler, Thomas Ripper, Elisabeth Elder, Kelly Marshall, Hans-Peter Fromm, Reinhard Adams, Marc Derksen, Chris King, Joshua Meta, Adriano Coccia, Alex Rutter, Nick Sandells, Melody Macelloni, Giovanni Santi, Emanuele Leduc-Leballeur, Marion Essery, Richard Menard, Cecile Kern, Michael 2021-10-22 application/pdf https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-2021-239 https://essd.copernicus.org/preprints/essd-2021-239/ eng eng doi:10.5194/essd-2021-239 https://essd.copernicus.org/preprints/essd-2021-239/ eISSN: 1866-3516 Text 2021 ftcopernicus https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-2021-239 2021-10-25T16:22:29Z The European Space Agency SnowSAR instrument is a side looking, dual polarized (VV/VH), X/Ku band synthetic aperture radar (SAR), operable from a small aircraft. Between 2010 and 2013, the instrument was deployed at several sites in Northern Finland, Austrian Alps, and northern Canada. The purpose of the airborne campaigns was to measure the backscattering properties of snow-covered terrain to support the development of snow water equivalent retrieval techniques using SAR. SnowSAR was deployed in Sodankylä, Northern Finland for a single flight mission in March 2011 and twelve missions at two sites (tundra and boreal forest) in the winter of 2011–2012. Over the Austrian Alps, three flight missions were performed between November 2012 and February 2013 over three sites located in different elevation zones, representing a montane valley, Alpine tundra, and a glacier environment. In Canada, a total of two missions were flown in March and April 2013, over sites in the Trail Valley Creek watershed, Northwest Territories, representative of the tundra snow regime. This paper introduces the airborne SAR data, as well as coincident in situ information on land cover, vegetation and snow properties. To facilitate easy access to the data record the datasets described here are deposited in a permanent data repository ( https://doi.pangaea.de/10.1594/PANGAEA.933255 Lemmetyinen et al., 2021). A temporary link to access the data without login information is provided for reviewers of this manuscript: https://www.pangaea.de/tok/e8c562c3c8a15ac34daa83d00c76fcb347330884 . Text glacier* Northern Finland Northwest Territories Sodankylä Tundra Copernicus Publications: E-Journals Canada Northwest Territories Sodankylä ENVELOPE(26.600,26.600,67.417,67.417) Trail Valley Creek ENVELOPE(-133.415,-133.415,68.772,68.772) Valley Creek ENVELOPE(-138.324,-138.324,63.326,63.326) |
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The European Space Agency SnowSAR instrument is a side looking, dual polarized (VV/VH), X/Ku band synthetic aperture radar (SAR), operable from a small aircraft. Between 2010 and 2013, the instrument was deployed at several sites in Northern Finland, Austrian Alps, and northern Canada. The purpose of the airborne campaigns was to measure the backscattering properties of snow-covered terrain to support the development of snow water equivalent retrieval techniques using SAR. SnowSAR was deployed in Sodankylä, Northern Finland for a single flight mission in March 2011 and twelve missions at two sites (tundra and boreal forest) in the winter of 2011–2012. Over the Austrian Alps, three flight missions were performed between November 2012 and February 2013 over three sites located in different elevation zones, representing a montane valley, Alpine tundra, and a glacier environment. In Canada, a total of two missions were flown in March and April 2013, over sites in the Trail Valley Creek watershed, Northwest Territories, representative of the tundra snow regime. This paper introduces the airborne SAR data, as well as coincident in situ information on land cover, vegetation and snow properties. To facilitate easy access to the data record the datasets described here are deposited in a permanent data repository ( https://doi.pangaea.de/10.1594/PANGAEA.933255 Lemmetyinen et al., 2021). A temporary link to access the data without login information is provided for reviewers of this manuscript: https://www.pangaea.de/tok/e8c562c3c8a15ac34daa83d00c76fcb347330884 . |
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Lemmetyinen, Juha Cohen, Juval Kontu, Anna Vehviläinen, Juho Hannula, Henna-Reetta Merkouriadi, Ioanna Scheiblauer, Stefan Rott, Helmut Nagler, Thomas Ripper, Elisabeth Elder, Kelly Marshall, Hans-Peter Fromm, Reinhard Adams, Marc Derksen, Chris King, Joshua Meta, Adriano Coccia, Alex Rutter, Nick Sandells, Melody Macelloni, Giovanni Santi, Emanuele Leduc-Leballeur, Marion Essery, Richard Menard, Cecile Kern, Michael |
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Lemmetyinen, Juha Cohen, Juval Kontu, Anna Vehviläinen, Juho Hannula, Henna-Reetta Merkouriadi, Ioanna Scheiblauer, Stefan Rott, Helmut Nagler, Thomas Ripper, Elisabeth Elder, Kelly Marshall, Hans-Peter Fromm, Reinhard Adams, Marc Derksen, Chris King, Joshua Meta, Adriano Coccia, Alex Rutter, Nick Sandells, Melody Macelloni, Giovanni Santi, Emanuele Leduc-Leballeur, Marion Essery, Richard Menard, Cecile Kern, Michael Airborne SnowSAR data at X- and Ku- bands over boreal forest, alpine and tundra snow cover |
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Lemmetyinen, Juha Cohen, Juval Kontu, Anna Vehviläinen, Juho Hannula, Henna-Reetta Merkouriadi, Ioanna Scheiblauer, Stefan Rott, Helmut Nagler, Thomas Ripper, Elisabeth Elder, Kelly Marshall, Hans-Peter Fromm, Reinhard Adams, Marc Derksen, Chris King, Joshua Meta, Adriano Coccia, Alex Rutter, Nick Sandells, Melody Macelloni, Giovanni Santi, Emanuele Leduc-Leballeur, Marion Essery, Richard Menard, Cecile Kern, Michael |
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Airborne SnowSAR data at X- and Ku- bands over boreal forest, alpine and tundra snow cover |
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Airborne SnowSAR data at X- and Ku- bands over boreal forest, alpine and tundra snow cover |
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Airborne SnowSAR data at X- and Ku- bands over boreal forest, alpine and tundra snow cover |
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Airborne SnowSAR data at X- and Ku- bands over boreal forest, alpine and tundra snow cover |
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Airborne SnowSAR data at X- and Ku- bands over boreal forest, alpine and tundra snow cover |
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airborne snowsar data at x- and ku- bands over boreal forest, alpine and tundra snow cover |
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Canada Northwest Territories Sodankylä Trail Valley Creek Valley Creek |
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glacier* Northern Finland Northwest Territories Sodankylä Tundra |
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