Accession Number:

ADA617968

Title:

Developing Remote Sensing Capabilities for Meter-Scale Sea Ice Properties

Descriptive Note:

Annual rept.

Corporate Author:

COLD REGIONS RESEARCH AND ENGINEERING LAB FORT WAINWRIGHT AK

Personal Author(s):

• Polashenski, Chris
• Frey, Karen E.

Report Date:

2014-09-30

Pagination or Media Count:

20.0

Abstract:

The overarching goal of this work is to develop and validate remote sensing techniques to track sea ice physical properties of geophysical importance that occur below the pixel size of most global-coverage satellite assets, particularly melt ponds.

Descriptors:

• *REMOTE DETECTION
• *SEA ICE
• AERIAL PHOTOGRAPHY
• ALGORITHMS
• ARCTIC OCEAN
• ICE REPORTING
• MARINE GEOPHYSICS
• MELTING
• MONITORING
• PHYSICAL PROPERTIES
• REMOTE DETECTORS
• SATELLITE IMAGERY
• SURFACE ROUGHNESS
• SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR

Subject Categories:

• Snow, Ice and Permafrost

Distribution Statement:

APPROVED FOR PUBLIC RELEASE