A new algorithm to calculate sea ice concentration from the SSM/I 85GHz observations

Author

Shokr, Mohammed ; Lambe, Andrew ; Agnew, Tom

Author_Institution

Environ. Canada, Toronto

fYear

2007

fDate

23-28 July 2007

Firstpage

3987

Lastpage

3990

Abstract

A new algorithm has been developed to calculate sea ice concentration from any set of passive microwave observations. It was applied to estimate total ice concentration and partial concentration of three ice types using SSM/I 85 GHz observations. The essence of the algorithm is a mathematical optimization technique to determine the best solution from multi-channel observations of a heterogeneous footprint that contains ice types of highly complex and overlapped brightness temperature. Results were validated against ice concentrations from Radarsat image analysis; an operational product from the Canadian Ice Service (CIS). They have proven the successful performance of the algorithm.

Keywords

oceanographic techniques; optimisation; passive radar; remote sensing by radar; sea ice; CIS; Canadian Ice Service; Radarsat image comparison; SSM/I observations; frequency 85 GHz; mathematical optimization technique; multichannel observations; passive microwave observations; sea ice complex brightness temperature; sea ice concentration calculation; sea ice overlapped brightness temperature; total ice concentration estimation; Brightness temperature; Ice thickness; Image analysis; Microwave radiometry; Microwave sensors; Microwave technology; Microwave theory and techniques; NASA; Polarization; Sea ice; SSMI ice parameter retrieval; ice algorithms; ice concentration; passive microwave; sea ice;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium, 2007. IGARSS 2007. IEEE International

Conference_Location

Barcelona

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-1211-2

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-4244-1212-9

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/IGARSS.2007.4423722

Filename

4423722