Assessing Sentinel-1 Imagery for Sea Ice Monitoring in the Denmark Strait

• Main Author: Melissa Peterson 1992-
• Other Authors: Háskóli Íslands
• Format: Thesis
• Language: English
• Published: 2017
• Subjects: Jarðvísindi; Norður-heimskautið; Hafís; Loftslagsbreytingar; Kortagerð; Arctic; The Sentinel; Denmark Strait; ice pack; Sea ice
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/1946/28285

Widely-available Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) imaging from the Sentinel-1 constellation offers opportunities for sea ice mapping and monitoring. In order to establish the viability of independent classification of new ice formation areas in the Marginal Ice Zone (MIZ) where sea ice presents mariti...