Analysis of SAR Data of the Polar Oceans: Recent Advances

by Costas Tsatsoulis (Editor), Ronald Kwok (Editor)

Overview

This book is a collection of the most recent and significant research on algorithms for the analysis of polar sea-ice SAR data. All algorithms are implemented and tested. One chapter is from the Alaskan SAR Facility, the major NASA archive of polar SAR data and a source of many SAR analysis algorithms, including high-level results of such analyses. One chapter has been written jointly by the US and Canadian Ice Centers, which provide e.g., operational sea-ice products to the shipping and oil-drilling industries and to polar explorations. This book will be useful to all researchers in the polar sciences community.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9783642643347
Publisher:	Springer Berlin Heidelberg
Publication date:	09/26/2011
Edition description:	Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1998
Pages:	290
Product dimensions:	6.10(w) x 9.25(h) x 0.03(d)

Table of Contents

1 Recent Advances in the Analysis of SAR Data of the Polar Oceans.- 2 Identifying Ice Floes and Computing Ice Floe Distributions in SAR Images.- 3 Role of SAR in Surface Energy Flux Measurements Over Sea Ice.- 4 Extraction of Intermediate Scale Sea Ice Deformation Parameters from SAR Ice Motion Products.- 5 Fusion of Satellite SAR with Passive Microwave Data for Sea Ice Remote Sensing.- 6 Wavelet Analysis of SAR Images in the Marginal Ice Zone.- 7 Mapping the Progression of Melt Onset and Freeze-Up on Arctic Sea Ice Using SAR and Scatterometry.- 8 Satellite Microwave Radar Observations of Antarctic Sea Ice.- 9 Alaska SAR Facility: The US Science Center for Sea Ice SAR Data.- 10 Polar SAR Data for Operational Sea Ice Mapping.- 11 The RADARSAT Geophysical Processor System.- 12 Towards Operational Monitoring of Arctic Sea Ice by SAR.- Author Citation Index.