Long-Term Analysis of Sea Ice Drift in the Western Ross Sea, Antarctica, at High and Low Spatial Resolution

• Published in: Remote Sensing
• Main Authors: Usama Farooq, Wolfgang Rack, Adrian McDonald, Stephen Howell
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute 2020
• Subjects: sea ice; motion tracking; Envisat ASAR; Polar Pathfinder; NSIDC; Western Ross Sea; Synthetic Aperture Radar; COSI-Corr; Ross Sea; McMurdo Sound; Terra Nova Bay; Ross Ice Shelf; Canada; Asar; Antarc*; Antarctica; Ice Shelf; Sea ice
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.3390/rs12091402

The Ross Sea region, including three main polynya areas in McMurdo Sound, Terra Nova Bay, and in front of the Ross Ice Shelf, has experienced a significant increase in sea ice extent in the first four decades of satellite observations. Here, we use Co-Registration of Optically Sensed Images and Corr...