Improving the Estimation of Water Level over Freshwater Ice Cover using Altimetry Satellite Active and Passive Observations

• Published in: Remote Sensing
• Main Authors: Jawad Ziyad, Kalifa Goïta, Ramata Magagi, Fabien Blarel, Frédéric Frappart
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute 2020
• Subjects: Inland water; radar altimetry; backscatter; brightness temperature; peakiness; ice cover; clustering; Jason-2; Great Slave Lake; Lake Athabasca; Subarctic
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.3390/rs12060967

Owing to its temporal resolution of 10-day and its polar orbit allowing several crossings over large lakes, the US National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) and the French Centre National d’Etudes Spatiales (CNES) missions including Topex/Poseidon, Jason-1/2/3 demonstrated strong capabili...