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

• Published in: Remote Sensing
• Main Authors: Surdu, Cristina M., Duguay, Claude R., Pour, Homa Kheyrollah, Brown, Laura C.
• Language: unknown
• Published: 2015
• Subjects: Arctic; Asar; Alaska
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/1807/92285; 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 seaso...