Backscatter Properties of Sea Ice with Radar. Arctic Operations Description and Preliminary Data Summary.

• Main Authors: Onstott,R G, Dome,G J, Hand,R A, Hague,James, Pape,H
• Other Authors: KANSAS UNIV/CENTER FOR RESEARCH INC LAWRENCE REMOTE SENSING LAB
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: 1977
• Subjects: Snow; Ice and Permafrost; Active & Passive Radar Detection & Equipment; *RADAR CROSS SECTIONS; *SEA ICE; DENSITY; TEMPERATURE; POLARIZATION; SURFACE ROUGHNESS; BACKSCATTERING; DATA ACQUISITION; SALINITY; MOISTURE; LAKES; FREQUENCY RESPONSE; RADAR SIGNATURES; SURFACE TRUTH; KU BAND; L BAND; Arctic; Arctic Ocean; Barrow; Ice; permafrost; Sea ice; Alaska
• Online Access: http://www.dtic.mil/docs/citations/ADA052711; http://oai.dtic.mil/oai/oai?&verb=getRecord&metadataPrefix=html&identifier=ADA052711

Active microwave responses of sea ice and lake ice were investigated at sites located off the North Alaskan Coast in the Arctic Ocean. The experimenters were ground-based at the Naval Arctic Research Laboratory, NARL, located outside of Barrow, Alaska, during May 1977, an early spring month in the Arctic. Microwave equipment was mounted on a portable A-frame type support system which was transported to test sites via sled and snowmobile and assembled. Data were acquired at numerous microwave frequencies, receive-transmit polarizations, and angles of incidence for 5 sea ice and 2 lake ice types. This memo documents the experiment and the experimental procedure; and lists the raw experimental data. (Author)