290
p
pancake ice 153
physical sea ice properties 37-38
Polar basin 73
polynyas 118-121, 268
pressure fields 254
pressure ridges 70
probabilistic labeling 14
Q
quick-look images 215
R
RADARSAT 5,191,208
RADARSAT Antarctic Mapping Project
(RAMP) 189
RADARSAT Geophysical Processor System (RGPS) 235-257,255
- products 251-254
radiation
- balance at ice surface 41
- downwelling longwave radiation 40
- net longwave 46
- net radiation of snow/ice system 40
- net solar 46
- upwelling longwave radiation 40
region matching 272-274
Resolute Bay 40
ridges 70,158
Riiser-Larsen ice shelf 158
S
Scanning Multichannel Microwave
Radiometer (SMMR) 4
scatterometer 138,141
sea ice classification 163
sea ice dielectric constant 38
- permittivity 38
Sea Ice Mechanics Initiative (SIMI) 85
SEASAT satellite 4
seasonal snowcover 195
segmentation 10,51, 261, 262-264, 267
shear zone 70
shuga 37
Shuttle Imaging Radar-B (SIR-B) 146
sigmu filter 263
SIMMS'92 43,45,58
SIRF algorithm 139, 164
skeletonization 12
snow cover 38
snow tlIickness 37
Southern Ocean 146,147
Soviet Arctic 248
Subject Index
Special Sensor Microwave Imager
(SSMII) 4,91
St. Lawrence Island 116, 121
STAR-2 SAR 16
station masks 193-195
surface albedo 3, 238
surface energy 36
Svalbard 268
Syowa station 147,149
T
temperature fields 254
template matching 124
Teniente Marsh Base 149
thresholding 14
- local dynamic 19,95,96-97,226
Troms0 station 151,213-214
trophic system 37
t -test 262, 263
W
wavelets
- Gaussian 112
- Laplacian 112
- Morlet 113,127
- transform 113-114
Weddell Sea 147, 149, 166
West Freugh ground station 276
West Spitzbergen 268
white ice floes 155
wind auto-spectra 170
wind scatterometer 150
Winter Weddell Gyre Study
(WWGS'92) 152,159
WMO sea ice terminology 216
y
young ice 154