Tenuous Correlation between Snow Depth or Sea Ice Thickness and C- or X-Band Backscattering in Nunavik Fjords of the Hudson Strait

• Published in: Remote Sensing
• Main Authors: Sophie Dufour-Beauséjour, Monique Bernier, Jérome Simon, Saeid Homayouni, Véronique Gilbert, Yves Gauthier, Juupi Tuniq, Anna Wendleder, Achim Roth
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: MDPI AG 2021
• Subjects: sea ice; snow; remote sensing; synthetic aperture radar; Nunavik; Bayesian linear regression; Science; Q; Hudson; Hudson Strait; Sea ice
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.3390/rs13040768; https://doaj.org/article/c4c8e88c77454f398b48b2e228db3d75

Radar penetration in brine-wetted snow-covered sea ice is almost nil, yet reports exist of a correlation between snow depth or ice thickness and SAR parameters. This article presents a description of snow depth and first-year sea ice thickness distributions in three fjords of the Hudson Strait and o...