Title :
Radarsat-1 for sea ice monitoring in Canada-an operational success story
Author :
Ramsay, Bruce ; Flett, Dean ; Manore, Michael ; De Abreu, Roger
Author_Institution :
Canadian Ice -Service, Ottawa, Ont., Canada
Abstract :
Monitoring of sea ice in Canada´s Arctic was one of the prime motivations for the development of an all-weather, active remote sensing satellite by the Canadian government. The Canadian Ice Service (CIS) has been an active participant in the Radarsat-1 program since its inception, and throughout the research, development, and operational phases. The CIS now critically relies on Radarsat-1 to provide operational ice reconnaissance over a seasonal ice cover of approximately 2 million km2
Keywords :
monitoring; oceanographic techniques; remote sensing by radar; sea ice; spaceborne radar; synthetic aperture radar; Atlantic Ocean; Canada; Canadian Ice Service; Radarsat-1 program; active remote sensing satellite; sea ice monitoring; seasonal ice cover; Business; Computational Intelligence Society; Contracts; Data acquisition; Intersymbol interference; Layout; Reconnaissance; Remote monitoring; Satellites; Sea ice;
Conference_Titel :
Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium, 2001. IGARSS '01. IEEE 2001 International
Conference_Location :
Sydney, NSW
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-7031-7
DOI :
10.1109/IGARSS.2001.976195
