Radar Backscatter Cross-Sections and Ice Characterization for May 1977 Point Barrow Experiment.

• Main Authors: Onstott,R G, Moore,R K
• Other Authors: KANSAS UNIV/CENTER FOR RESEARCH INC LAWRENCE REMOTE SENSING LAB
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: 1983
• Subjects: Radiofrequency Wave Propagation; *Ice; *Electromagnetic scattering; Alaska; Sea ice; Lakes; Snow cover; Radar signals; L band; K band; Backscattering; Radar cross sections; Angles; Tables(Data); Ice Lakes; Barrow; Point Barrow
• Online Access: http://www.dtic.mil/docs/citations/ADA130042; http://oai.dtic.mil/oai/oai?&verb=getRecord&metadataPrefix=html&identifier=ADA130042

Radar backscatter measurements were made of shorefast sea ice and fresh water ice near Point Barrow, Alaska, in May 1977 with a transportable microwave spectrometer, TRAMAS, that swept from 1-2 GHz and 8-18 GHz, viewed angles from 10 to 70 deg from nadir, and had antenna transmit-receive polarizations of vertical-vertical, horizontal-horizontal, vertical-horizontal, and horizontal-vertical. Thick first-year sea ice, multiyear sea ice, a small first-year pressure-ridge, and fresh water lake ice were investigated. Included herein are the radar backscatter cross-sections and ice characterization data. (Author)