Defining a Sea Ice Flag for Envisat Altimetry Mission

doi:10.1109/LGRS.2008.2005275

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Defining a Sea Ice Flag for Envisat Altimetry Mission

Publication Type

Publication

Publication date

2009

Language

English

Full Text

http://archimer.ifremer.fr/doc/2009/publication-5289.pdf (0.25 Mo)

Author(s)

Tran N¹, Ardhuin Fanny², Ezraty Robert², Feng H³, Femenias P⁴

Affiliation(s):

1 : CLS, Space Oceanog Div, F-31520 Ramonville St Agne, France.
2 : IFREMER, F-29280 Plouzane, France.
3 : Univ New Hampshire, Ocean Proc Anal Lab, Durham, NH 03834 USA.
4 : European Space Agcy, European Space Res Inst Earth Observat, I-00044 Frascati, Italy.

Source:

Geoscience and Remote Sensing Letters (1545-598X) (IEEE), 2009 , Vol. 6 , N. 1 , P. 77-81

DOI:

10.1109/LGRS.2008.2005275

Subject(s)

Engineering Sciences, Physical Oceanography

Keyword(s)

sea ice, remote sensing, microwave measurements, Altimetry

Abstract

This letter presents the development of a sea ice flag algorithm for the Envisat altimetry mission to detect sea ice corrupted sea surface height data within quality control processing. The algorithm takes advantage of having both passive and active microwave sensors on the same platform with coregistered measurements. Its performances have been evaluated based on collocations between the along-track Envisat data with reference maps built from combination of daily grids of sea ice concentration from SSM/I sensors and backscatter cross section from SeaWinds scatterometer on QuikSCAT satellite.

How to cite this document:

Tran N, Ardhuin Fanny, Ezraty Robert, Feng H, Femenias P (2009). Defining a Sea Ice Flag for Envisat Altimetry Mission. Geoscience and Remote Sensing Letters, 6(1), 77-81. Publisher's official version : http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/LGRS.2008.2005275 , Open Access version : http://archimer.ifremer.fr/doc/00000/5289/