Contents
1 Recent Advances in the Analysis of SAR Data of the Polar Oceans . . . . . . . . . . 3
C. Tsatsoulis and R. Kwok
2
Identifying Ice Floes and Computing Ice Floe Distributions
in SAR Images ........... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
L.-K. Soh, C. Tsatsoulis, and B. Holt
3 Role of SAR in Surface Energy Flux Measurements Over Sea Ice ........... 35
D.G. Barber, A. Thomas, and T.N. Papakyriakou
4 Extraction of Intermediate Scale Sea Ice Deformation Parameters from
SAR Ice Motion Products. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 69
S. Li, Z. Cheng, and w.P. Weeks
5 Fusion of Satellite SAR with Passive Microwave Data
for Sea Ice Remote Sensing ........................................... 91
S. G. Beaven and S.P. Gogineni
6 Wavelet Analysis of SAR Images in the Marginal Ice Zone ................ III
A.K. Liu and C. Y. Peng
7 Mapping the Progression of Melt Onset and Freeze-Up on Arctic Sea Ice
Using SAR and Scatterometry . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. l29
D.P. Winebrenner, D.G. Long, B. Holt
8 Satellite Microwave Radar Observations of Antarctic Sea Ice .............. 145
M. R. Drinkwater
9 Alaska SAR Facility: The US Science Center for Sea Ice SAR Data .......... 189
P. Carsey, R. Harding, C. Wales
10 Polar SAR Data for Operational Sea Ice Mapping ........................ 201
C. Bertoia, J. Falkingham, P. Fetterer
11 The RADARSAT Geophysical Processor System ......................... 235
R.Kwok
12 Towards Operational Monitoring of Arctic Sea Ice by SAR ................ 259
A.J. Sephton and K.C. Partington
Author Citation Index ................................................... 281
Subject Index ........................................................... 287