Conference paper
Initial results of CryoSat-2 data from the Arctic
In
Proceedings of Cryosat Validation Workshop 2011
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2011
Abstract
We examine SAR L1b data from the commissioning phase, currently available for the calibration and validation teams. We use CryoSat-2 data to detect leads in the sea-ice in an area north of Svalbard. Furthermore, we classify the sea-ice from computed freeboard values, and evaluate the coherence between the SAR backscatter and the CryoSat-2 data.
The surface elevation is extracted from an 80% threshold retracker and a five parameter - retracker, and this is given with respect to the DTU10 Mean Sea Surface model (MSS). The results are compared with an Envisat ASAR image, and we show that there is a strong correspondence between the freeboard heights and the leads visible in the ASAR image.
| Language: | English |
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| Publisher: | European Space Agency |
| Year: | 2011 |
| Proceedings: | CryoSat Validation Workshop 2011 |
| Journal subtitle: | Cd |
| ISBN: | 9290922427 , 9290922540 , 9789290922421 and 9789290922544 |
| Types: | Conference paper |
| ORCIDs: | Stenseng, Lars , Skourup, Henriette , Forsberg, René and Sørensen, Louise Sandberg |
