Monitoring of Arctic Conditions from a Virtual Constellation of Synthetic Aperture Radar Satellites

Abstract

The long-term goal is to utilize a constellation of satellite radars to monitor the melting and freezing cycles of the Arctic Ocean north of 65o. Satellite data collections will support in-situ buoy clusters and ice camps as well as seagoing experiments with gliders and drifting buoys. From difference maps of time series of images deduce changes in ice extent, ice-type, and lead expansion/contraction with temporal resolutions from hours to days. Ultimately provide a routine Arctic coverage and generate products for operational purposes, and as validation, boundary conditions, and initialization to numerical ice-ocean forecast models.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Sep 30, 2014
Accession Number
ADA617645

Entities

People

  • Peter J. Minnett

Organizations

  • University of Miami

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Space

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Arctic Ocean
  • Artificial Satellites
  • Change Detection
  • Constellations
  • Detection
  • Detectors
  • High Resolution
  • Low Resolution
  • Monitoring
  • Neural Networks
  • Oceans
  • Open Water
  • Regions
  • Remote Sensing
  • Supervised Machine Learning
  • Synthetic Aperture Radar
  • Training

Fields of Study

  • Environmental science

Readers

  • Ocean-Atmosphere Mesoscale Modeling, Data Assimilation, and Flux Boundary Layers
  • Polar and Arctic Studies
  • Radar Systems Engineering.

Technology Areas

  • Autonomy
  • Space