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| Author | Leshkevich, G.A. Nghiem, S.V. |
| Copyright Year | 2002 |
| Description | Author affiliation: Great Lakes Environ. Res. Lab., NOAA, Ann Arbor, MI, USA (Leshkevich, G.A.) |
| Abstract | Summary form only given, as follows. Remote sensing of Great Lakes ice cover uses various classes of radars including scatterometer, polarimetric Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR), and interferometric SAR. Satellite wide-swath scatterometers provide large areal coverage with high temporal resolution data to map Great Lakes ice cover. They compliment the high spatial but lower temporal resolution of satellite SAR data. The approach is to use in-situ and ground truth measurements from our 1997 Great Lakes winter experiments (GLAWEX 1997) in conjunction with concurrent satellite SAR data from ERS-2 and RADARSAT-1 and scatterometer data from NSCAT to determine scatterometer backscatter signatures of lake ice. The backscatter signatures are used as a library to develop an ice mapping algorithm using first the NSCAT data acquired during GLAWEX 1997 and then SeaWinds data (currently operational on the QuikSCAT satellite). Verification of the ice mapping results are carried out with in-situ observations from US Coast Guard (USCG) icebreaker vessels operating on the Great Lakes under the jurisdiction of the Ninth Coast Guard District. In addition, we installed a web camera to monitor ice cover over an area in Lake Superior to verify time-series scatterometer results obtained from QuikSCAT data. Moreover, polarimetric radar backscatter measurements from a USCG icebreaker acquired during GLAWEX 1997 reveal that multi-polarization backscatter data for the typical snow-covered snow ice on lake ice in the Great Lakes can be used to map ice and open water without the ambiguity encountered in single polarization data due to variations in wind speed over water. During our 2002 winter experiment (GLAWEX 2002) NASA AIRSAR C-band and L-band polarimetric and interferometric measurements are collected over Lake Superior, Green Bay and northern Lake Michigan, and the North Channel together with in-situ field observations. Polarimetric C-band SAR data obtained form GLAWEX 1997 (shipborne radar) and GLAWEX 2002 (airborne SAR) are used to develop multi-polarization algorithms in view of ENVISAT and RADARSAT-2 multi-polarization SAR applications to lake ice mapping. Furthermore, interferometric SAR data acquired during GLAWEX 2002 are used to evaluate the utility of interferometric SAR data for three-dimensional mapping for lake ice including aerial coverage and thickness. Because lake ice, unlike sea ice, has no salinity content, microwaves can propagate into lake ice unless the surface is wet due to melting. GLAWEX 2002 is a large-scale experiment including in-situ observations by webcam with all azimuth coverage, in-situ measurements from ship, air reconnaissance from helicopter, polarimetric and interferometric SAR from the NASA DC-8 aircraft, satellite scatterometer data from QuikSCAT/SeaWinds, and satellite SAR data from RADARSAT. |
| Sponsorship | IEEE IEEE Geosci. & Remote Sensing Soc. Canadian Remote Sensing Soc. Univ. Waterloo Natural Resources Canada (NRCan) Canadian Space Agency (CSA) Environ. Canada NASA Nat. Oceanic & Atmos. Adm. (NOAA) Office of Naval Res.(ONR) Nat. Space Dev. Agency of Japan (NASDA) Nat. Polar-orbiting Environ. Satellite Syst. (NPOESS) |
| File Size | 394426 |
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| ISBN | 078037536X |
| DOI | 10.1109/IGARSS.2002.1027108 |
| Language | English |
| Publisher | Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE) |
| Publisher Date | 2002-06-24 |
| Publisher Place | Canada |
| Access Restriction | Subscribed |
| Rights Holder | Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE) |
| Subject Keyword | Radar remote sensing Lakes Ice Radar measurements Synthetic aperture radar Satellites Backscatter Radar polarimetry Spaceborne radar Sea measurements |
| Content Type | Text |
| Resource Type | Article |
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