Assessing the Performance of Methods for Monitoring Ice Phenology of the World’s Largest High Arctic Lake Using High-Density Time Series Analysis of Sentinel-1 Data

• Published in: Remote Sensing
• Main Authors: Justin Murfitt, Claude R. Duguay
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute 2020
• Subjects: Synthetic Aperture Radar; lake ice; Cryosphere; High Density Time Series; Sentinel-1; Arctic; Nunavut; Canada; Arctic Lake; The Sentinel; Lake Hazen
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.3390/rs12030382

Lake ice is a dominant component of Canada’s landscape and can act as an indicator for how freshwater aquatic ecosystems are changing with warming climates. While lake ice monitoring through government networks has decreased in the last three decades, the increased availability of remote sensing ima...