Remote Sensing of Ice Phenology and Dynamics of Europe’s Largest Coastal Lagoon (The Curonian Lagoon)

• Published in: Remote Sensing
• Main Authors: Rasa Idzelytė, Igor E. Kozlov, Georg Umgiesser
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: MDPI AG 2019
• Subjects: ice cover; remote sensing; synthetic aperture radar (SAR); mapping; ice drift; Curonian Lagoon; NAO; climate change; Science; Q; Asar; North Atlantic; North Atlantic oscillation
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.3390/rs11172059; https://doaj.org/article/c45c6e914b96436bb8e330053c175f3f

A first-ever spatially detailed record of ice cover conditions in the Curonian Lagoon (CL), Europe’s largest coastal lagoon located in the southeastern Baltic Sea, is presented. The multi-mission synthetic aperture radar (SAR) measurements acquired in 2002−2017 by Envisat ASAR, RADARSAT-2, Sentinel-...