MODIS Sea Ice Thickness and Open Water–Sea Ice Charts over the Barents and Kara Seas for Development and Validation of Sea Ice Products from Microwave Sensor Data

• Published in: Remote Sensing
• Main Authors: Marko Mäkynen, Juha Karvonen
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute 2017
• Subjects: sea ice; remote sensing; MODIS; synthetic aperture radar; microwave radiometer; Antarctic; Arctic; The Sentinel; Antarc*; Arctic and Antarctic Research Institute; Sea ice
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.3390/rs9121324

We have developed algorithms and procedures for calculating daily sea ice thickness (SIT) and open water–sea ice (OWSI) charts, based on the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS), ice surface temperature (IST) (night-time only), and reflectance ( R ) swath data, respectively. The res...