Utilisation of CryoSat-2 SAR altimeter in operational ice charting

We present methods to utilise CryoSat-2 (CS-2) synthetic aperture radar (SAR) mode data in operational ice charting. We compare CS-2 data qualitatively to SAR mosaics over the Barents and Kara seas. Furthermore, we compare the CS-2 to archived operational ice charts. We present distributions of four...

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Main Authors: E. Rinne, M. Similä
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Copernicus Publications 2016-01-01
Series:The Cryosphere
Online Access:http://www.the-cryosphere.net/10/121/2016/tc-10-121-2016.pdf