Improving the Estimation of Water Level over Freshwater Ice Cover using Altimetry Satellite Active and Passive Observations

• Published in: Remote Sensing
• Main Authors: Jawad Ziyad, Kalifa Goïta, Ramata Magagi, Fabien Blarel, Frédéric Frappart
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: MDPI AG 2020
• Subjects: inland water; radar altimetry; backscatter; brightness temperature; peakiness; ice cover; clustering; jason-2; Science; Q; Great Slave Lake; Lake Athabasca; Subarctic
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.3390/rs12060967; https://doaj.org/article/dd3db2b861a64962b77bb9e5fba3232e

Owing to its temporal resolution of 10-day and its polar orbit allowing several crossings over large lakes, the US National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) and the French Centre National d’Etudes Spatiales (CNES) missions including Topex/Poseidon, Jason-1/2/3 demonstrated strong capabili...