TerraSAR-X Time Series Fill a Gap in Spaceborne Snowmelt Monitoring of Small Arctic Catchments - A Case Study on Qikiqtaruk (Herschel Island), Canada

• Published in: Remote Sensing
• Main Authors: Stettner, Samuel, Lantuit, Hugues, Heim, Birgit, Eppler, Jayson, Roth, Achim, Bartsch, Annett, Rabus, Bernhard
• Format: Other Non-Article Part of Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute (MDPI) 2018
• Subjects: Landoberfläche; Arctic; Canada; Herschel Island; Yukon; Herschel; Tundra
• Online Access: https://elib.dlr.de/121158/; https://elib.dlr.de/121158/1/remotesensing-10-01155.pdf; https://doi.org/10.3390/rs10071155

The timing of snowmelt is an important turning point in the seasonal cycle of small Arctic catchments. The TerraSAR-X (TSX) satellite mission is a synthetic aperture radar system (SAR) with high potential to measure the high spatiotemporal variability of snow cover extent (SCE) and fractional snow c...