Ice Freeze-up and Break-up Detection of Shallow Lakes in Northern Alaska with Spaceborne SAR

• Published in: Remote Sensing
• Main Authors: Cristina Surdu, Claude Duguay, Homa Pour, Laura Brown
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute 2015
• Subjects: Arctic lakes; break-up; freeze onset; synthetic aperture radar; Arctic; Asar; Alaska
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.3390/rs70506133

Shallow lakes, with depths less than ca. 3.5–4 m, are a ubiquitous feature of the Arctic Alaskan Coastal Plain, covering up to 40% of the land surface. With such an extended areal coverage, lakes and their ice regimes represent an important component of the cryosphere. The duration of the ice season...