Evaluating landfast sea ice ridging near UtqiagVik Alaska Using TanDEM-X interferometry
Artikel i vetenskaplig tidskrift, 2020

Seasonal landfast sea ice stretches along most Arctic coastlines and serves as a platform for community travel and subsistence, industry operations, and as a habitat for marine mammals. Landfast ice can feature smooth ice and areas of m-scale roughness in the form of pressure ridges. Such ridges can significantly hamper trafficability, but if grounded can also serve to stabilize the shoreward ice. We investigate the use of synthetic aperture radar interferometry (InSAR) to assess the formation and movement of ridges in the landfast sea ice near Utqiagvik, Alaska. The evaluation is based on the InSAR-derived surface elevation change between two TanDEM-X bistatic image pairs acquired during January 2012. We compare the results with backscatter intensity, coastal radar data, and SAR-derived ice drift and evaluate the utility of this approach and its relevance for evaluation of ridge properties, as well as landfast sea ice evolution, dynamics, and stability. © 2020 by the authors.

TanDEM-X

Synthetic aperture radar

InSAR

Landfast sea ice

Sea ice

Författare

Marjan Marbouti

Helsingin Yliopisto

Leif Eriksson

Chalmers, Rymd-, geo- och miljövetenskap, Mikrovågs- och optisk fjärranalys

Dyre Oliver Dammann

Chalmers, Rymd-, geo- och miljövetenskap, Mikrovågs- och optisk fjärranalys

StormGeo

Denis Demchev

Chalmers, Rymd-, geo- och miljövetenskap, Mikrovågs- och optisk fjärranalys

Joshua M. Jones

University of Alaska Fairbanks

Anders Berg

AFRY

Chalmers, Rymd-, geo- och miljövetenskap, Mikrovågs- och optisk fjärranalys

Oleg Antropov

Teknologian Tutkimuskeskus (VTT)

Remote Sensing

20724292 (eISSN)

Vol. 12 8 1247

Unfolding Sea Ice Dynamics with SAR

Rymdstyrelsen (192/15), 2016-01-01 -- 2018-12-31.

Ämneskategorier

Fjärranalysteknik

Meteorologi och atmosfärforskning

Multidisciplinär geovetenskap

DOI

10.3390/rs12081247

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