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

• Main Authors: Stettner, Samuel, Lantuit, Hugues, Heim, Birgit, Eppler, Jayson, Roth, Achim, Bartsch, Annett, Rabus, Bernhard
• Other Authors: Eineder, Michael, Moreira, Alberto
• Format: Text
• Language: unknown
• Published: Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute (MDPI) 2019
• Subjects: Dynamik der Landoberfläche; Arctic; Yukon; Canada; Herschel Island; Herschel; Tundra
• Online Access: https://elib.dlr.de/133844/

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...