Analysis of SAR Data of the Polar Oceans

This book is a collection of the most recent and significant research on algorithms for the analysis of polar sea-ice SAR data. All algorithms are implemented and tested. One chapter is from the Alaskan SAR Facility, the major NASA archive of polar SAR data and a source of many SAR analysis algorithms, including high-level results of such analyses. One chapter has been written jointly by the US and Canadian Ice Centers, which provide e.g., operational sea-ice products to the shipping and oil-drilling industries and to polar explorations. This book will be useful to all researchers in the polar sciences community.
TOC: From the Contents: Recent Advances in the Analysis of SAR Data of the Polar Oceans. - Identifying Ice Floes and Computing Ice Floe Distributions in SAR Images. - The Role of Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) in Surface Energy Flux Measurements Over Sea Ice. - Extraction of Intermediate Scale Sea Ice Deformation Parameters from SAR Ice Motion Products. - Fusion of Satellite SAR with Passive Microwave Data for Sea Ice Remote Sensing. - Wavelet Analysis of SAR Images in the Marginal Ice Zone. - Mapping the Progression of Melt Onset and Freeze-up on Arctic Sea ice Using Synthetic Aperture Radar and Scatterometry. - Satellite Microwave Radar Observations of Antarctic Sea Ice. - Alaska SAR Facility: The U.S. Science Center for Sea Ice SAR Data. - Polar SAR Data for Operational Sea Ice Mapping. - The RADARSAT Geophysical Processor System. - Towards Operational Monitoring of Arctic Sea Ice by Synthetic Aperture Radar. -