Identification

Title

RADARSAT SAR Sea Ice Imagery [H. Stern and Moritz, R.]

Alternative title(s)

13.813

Abstract

The Canadian RADARSAT satellite collected 195 synthetic aperture radar (SAR) images of the SHEBA site between November 1, 1997, and October 8, 1998 (roughly one image every 3-5 days). The C-band (5.3 GHz) RADARSAT SAR imaged a swath on the earth 460 km wide (in ScanSAR mode) with a pixel size of 50 m, unhampered by clouds or darkness. The satellite data were received and processed into imagery at the Alaska SAR Facility (ASF) in Fairbanks. Sequential pairs of images were then processed by the RADARSAT Geophysical Processor System (RGPS) at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) in Pasadena to derive the motion of the sea ice on a 5-km grid by tracking common features in each pair of images. Thus we have a year-long record of the spatial pattern of ice motion and the radar backscatter in the vicinity of the SHEBA site. There are 195 images from which two sub-images were extracted, with the SHEBA station at the center of each. One sub-image was at the original spatial resolution of 50 meters per pixel, and 800 x 800 pixels (40 x 40 km). The other sub-image was spatially averaged to 250 meters per pixel, and was also 800 x 800 pixels (200 x 200 km). The two sets of 195 sub-images are bundled into two .tar files. Additionally, there is an animated GIF file of each sequence of 195 sub-images.

Resource type

dataset

Resource locator

https://data.eol.ucar.edu//dataset/13.813

protocol: https

description: Dataset homepage

https://data.eol.ucar.edu/cgi-bin/codiac/fgr_form/id=13.813

protocol: https

description: Dataset order request form. Data files are made available via FTP.

function: order

Unique resource identifier

code

13.813

codeSpace

Dataset language

Spatial reference system

code identifying the spatial reference system

Classification of spatial data and services

Topic category

climatologyMeteorologyAtmosphere

Keywords

Keyword set

keyword value

dataset

originating controlled vocabulary

title

Resource Type

reference date

date type

revision

effective date

2014-10-16

Keyword set

keyword value

Satellite, RADARSAT

Keyword set

keyword value

Satellite

Oceanography

Arctic

Sea Ice

Keyword set

keyword value

EARTH SCIENCE > SPECTRAL/ENGINEERING > RADAR > RADAR BACKSCATTER

EARTH SCIENCE > OCEANS > SEA ICE > SEA ICE MOTION

originating controlled vocabulary

title

Global Change Master Directory (GCMD)

reference date

date type

revision

effective date

2018-02-27

Geographic location

West bounding longitude

-168.15700

East bounding longitude

-143.94400

North bounding latitude

80.44900

South bounding latitude

74.64700

Temporal reference

Temporal extent

Begin position

1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

End position

1998-10-08T23:59:59Z

Dataset reference date

date type

publication

effective date

2020-08-04T18:32:12Z

Frequency of update

Quality and validity

Lineage

Conformity

Data format

name of format

version of format

Constraints related to access and use

Constraint set

Use constraints

none

Limitations on public access

none

Responsible organisations

Responsible party

contact position

EOL Data Support

organisation name

UCAR/NCAR - Earth Observing Laboratory

full postal address

PO Box 3000

Boulder

80307-3000

email address

datahelp@eol.ucar.edu

web address

https://data.eol.ucar.edu/

responsible party role

pointOfContact

Responsible party

contact position

EOL Data Support

organisation name

UCAR/NCAR - Earth Observing Laboratory

full postal address

PO Box 3000

Boulder

80307-3000

email address

datahelp@eol.ucar.edu

web address

https://data.eol.ucar.edu/

responsible party role

pointOfContact

Metadata on metadata

Metadata point of contact

contact position

EOL Data Support

organisation name

UCAR/NCAR - Earth Observing Laboratory

full postal address

PO Box 3000

Boulder

80307-3000

email address

datahelp@eol.ucar.edu

web address

https://data.eol.ucar.edu/

responsible party role

pointOfContact

Metadata date

2024-02-07T22:46:14Z

Metadata language

eng; USA