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Research article
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18 Jan 2016
Research article |
| 18 Jan 2016
Utilisation of CryoSat-2 SAR altimeter in operational ice charting
E. Rinne
CORRESPONDING AUTHOR
Finnish Meteorological Institute, Marine Research, P.O. Box 503, 00101 Helsinki, Finland
M. Similä
Finnish Meteorological Institute, Marine Research, P.O. Box 503, 00101 Helsinki, Finland
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- Arctic Sea Ice Classification Based on CFOSAT SWIM Data at Multiple Small Incidence Angles M. Liu et al. https://doi.org/10.3390/rs14010091
- Monitoring Arctic thin ice: a comparison between CryoSat-2 SAR altimetry data and MODIS thermal-infrared imagery F. Müller et al. https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-17-809-2023
- Near-real-time Arctic sea ice thickness and volume from CryoSat-2 R. Tilling et al. https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-10-2003-2016
- A Study of the Technology Used to Distinguish Sea Ice and Seawater on the Haiyang-2A/B (HY-2A/B) Altimeter Data C. Jiang et al. https://doi.org/10.3390/rs11121490
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Short summary
This paper demonstrates the use of the CryoSat-2 SAR altimeter in operational ice charting. We take CryoSat-2 data and compare them to ice charts over the sea-ice-covered regions in the Barents and Kara seas. We also present an automatic classification method for CryoSat-2 measurements that could be used to support navigation. We conclude that SAR altimeter measurements can be valuable to operational ice charting if other data sources are unavailable.
This paper demonstrates the use of the CryoSat-2 SAR altimeter in operational ice charting. We...
