Generating large-scale sea ice motion from Sentinel-1 and the RADARSAT Constellation Mission using the Environment and Climate Change Canada automated sea ice tracking system

Howell, Stephen E. L.; Brady, Mike; Komarov, Alexander S.

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-16-1125-2022

Articles | Volume 16, issue 3

https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-16-1125-2022

© Author(s) 2022. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.

https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-16-1125-2022

© Author(s) 2022. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.

Articles | Volume 16, issue 3

Research article

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31 Mar 2022

Research article |

| 31 Mar 2022

Generating large-scale sea ice motion from Sentinel-1 and the RADARSAT Constellation Mission using the Environment and Climate Change Canada automated sea ice tracking system

Stephen E. L. Howell, Mike Brady, and Alexander S. Komarov

Data sets

S1+RCM 7-day and 3-day Sea Ice Motion S. E. L. Howell, M. Brady, and A. S. Komarov https://crd-data-donnees-rdc.ec.gc.ca/CPS/products/PanArctic_SIM/

Polar Pathfinder Daily 25 km EASE-Grid Sea Ice Motion Vectors, Version 4 M. Tschudi, W. N. Meier, J. S. Stewart, C. Fowler, and J. Maslanik https://doi.org/10.5067/INAWUWO7QH7B

Short summary

We describe, apply, and validate the Environment and Climate Change Canada automated sea ice tracking system (ECCC-ASITS) that routinely generates large-scale sea ice motion (SIM) over the pan-Arctic domain using synthetic aperture radar (SAR) images. The ECCC-ASITS was applied to the incoming image streams of Sentinel-1AB and the RADARSAT Constellation Mission from March 2020 to October 2021 using a total of 135 471 SAR images and generated new SIM datasets (i.e., 7 d 25 km and 3 d 6.25 km).