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Sea Ice Detection using Microwave Remote Sensing Techniques in the Weddell Sea, Antarctica  

황종선 (연세대학교 지구시스템과학과)
이방용 (한국해양연구원 극지연구실)
심재설 (한국해양연구원 연안 항만공학 연구실)
홍성민 (한국해양연구원 극지연구실)
윤호일 (한국해양연구원 극지연구실)
권태영 (강릉대학교 대기환경과학과)
민경덕 (연세대학교 지구시스템과학과)
김정우 (세종대학교 지구정보공학과)
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Economic and Environmental Geology / v.36, no.2, 2003 , pp. 141-148 More about this Journal
Abstract
We investigated the distribution of sea ice using various microwave remote sensing techniques including radar altimeter, radiometer, and scatterometer data in the part of Drake passage, Antarctica, between the area 45$^{\circ}$-75$^{\circ}$W and 55$^{\circ}$-66$^{\circ}$S. Topex/poseidon radar altimeter data were used to analyze the monthly distribution of sea ice surface area between 1992 and 1999 by using Geo_bad_1 flag or MGDR. From satellite radiometer measurements of DMSP's SSM/I, sea ice concentration was extracted during the period from 1993 to 1996. To select a value of ice concentration, normally ranging from 0 to 100%, that can be used as a critical value of judging the existence for ice, sea ice areas estimated from various ice concentrations of radiometer measurements were correlated with the area estimated from the radar altimeter measurements. As a result, 20% of ice concentration was selected, and, then this value was used to integrate radiometer data with radar altimeter and ERS-1/2 scatterometer data. To indirectly verify the result, the last 20 year's sea ice concentration was correlated with surface temperature data near Esper-anza Observation Station. The two data showed a high correlation coefficient of 0.86. The amount of sea ice and temperature variation were found to be closely related in the study area, and this indirectly verifies the result of this study. We provided a method to judge the existence of sea ice from ice concentration of satellite radiometer data and suggested a method to monitor more detailed temporal and spatial variation of sea ice distribution by integra-tion of various microwave remote sensing techniques.
Keywords
Antarctica; Sea ice; Altimeter; Scatterometer; Radiometer;
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