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: Samuel Stettner, Hugues Lantuit, Birgit Heim, Jayson Eppler, Achim Roth, Annett Bartsch, Bernhard Rabus
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: MDPI AG 2018
• Subjects: Snow Cover Extent (SCE); TerraSAR-X; Landsat; wet snow; small Arctic catchments; satellite time series; Science; Q; Arctic; Canada; Herschel Island; Yukon; Herschel; Tundra
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.3390/rs10071155; https://doaj.org/article/ffc2728f2977430a926ed9e99e779832

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...