Analysis of SAR Data of the Polar Oceans Recent Advances [Paperback]

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.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.This book reviews recent advances in the use of SAR imagery for operational applications and for supporting science investigations of the polar oceans. The important parameters which can be extracted from spaceborne SAR imagery are discussed. Algorithms used in such analyses are described and data systems used in producing the sea ice products are provided.Die in diesem Buch gesammelten Algorithmen sind von unmittelbarem Nutzen f?r Polarwissenschaftler. Nahezu alle SAR-bezogene Produkte und Dienstleistungen, lS(