Evaluating ERS-1 Ice Motion and Classification Products

ERS-1 Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) imagery from the Alaska SAR facility is available to operational ice analysts at the Joint Ice Center. Analyst can use the imagery directly through manual interpretation. One such use would be to provide information on ice conditions for a field expedition. In ad...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Fetterer, F., Gineris, D.
Other Authors: NAVAL RESEARCH LAB STENNIS SPACE CENTER MS
Format: Text
Language:English
Published: 1993
Subjects:
Active & Passive Radar Detection & Equipment
*SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR
*SEA ICE
MODELS
DYNAMICS
CLASSIFICATION
OCEANS
LABORATORIES
IMAGES
ALASKA
PE63704N
WUDN258116
REMOTE SENSING
ERS-1 SATELLITE
Sea ice
Alaska
Online Access:http://www.dtic.mil/docs/citations/ADA267614
http://oai.dtic.mil/oai/oai?&verb=getRecord&metadataPrefix=html&identifier=ADA267614
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Summary:ERS-1 Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) imagery from the Alaska SAR facility is available to operational ice analysts at the Joint Ice Center. Analyst can use the imagery directly through manual interpretation. One such use would be to provide information on ice conditions for a field expedition. In addition, analysts can run automated algorithms which produce estimates of ice type and ice motion from SAR images. Such automated analysis will become increasingly important if SAR is to be used to improve climatologies of ice characteristics and to improve the performance of dynamic ice models. Here the ice classification and ice motion algorithms developed by the Jet Propulsion Laboratory for ERS-1 SAR imagery are evaluated and results presented. Remote sensing, Synthetic aperture radar, Sea ice.

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