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Ashcraft, Ivan S.

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Microwave remote sensing of the Greenland ice sheet: Models and applications.

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Microwave remote sensing of the Greenland ice sheet: Models and applications./
Author:	Ashcraft, Ivan S.
Description:	167 p.
Notes:	Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 65-06, Section: B, page: 3059.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International65-06B.
Subject:	Engineering, Electronics and Electrical. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=3136122
ISBN:	0496833219

Microwave remote sensing of the Greenland ice sheet: Models and applications.
Ashcraft, Ivan S.

Microwave remote sensing of the Greenland ice sheet: Models and applications. - 167 p.

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 65-06, Section: B, page: 3059.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--Brigham Young University, 2004.

Spaceborne microwave sensors are powerful tools for monitoring the impacts of global climate change on the Greenland ice sheet. This dissertation focuses on refining methods for applying microwave data in Greenland studies by using new simple theoretical and empirical models to investigate (1) azimuth anisotropies in the data, (2) the microwave signature of the snow surface, (3) detection of snow melt, and (4) classification of snow melt. The results are applicable for identifying geophysical properties of the snow surface and monitoring changes on the ice sheet in relation to melt duration/extent, accumulation, and wind patterns.

ISBN: 0496833219Subjects--Topical Terms:

626636
Engineering, Electronics and Electrical.

Microwave remote sensing of the Greenland ice sheet: Models and applications.
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520 $a Azimuth dependence of the normalized radar cross-section (sigma°) over the Greenland ice sheet is modeled with a simple surface scattering model. The model assumes that azimuth anisotropy in 1--100 meter scale surface roughness is the primary mechanism driving the azimuth modulation. This model is inverted to estimate snow surface properties using sigma° measurements from the C-band European Remote Sensing Advanced Microwave Instrument (ERS) in scatterometer mode. The largest roughness estimates occur in the lower portions of the dry snow zone. Estimates of the preferential direction in surface roughness are highly correlated with katabatic wind fields over Greenland.
520 $a A new observation model is introduced that uses a limited number of parameters to characterize the snow surface based on the dependence of radar backscatter on incidence angle, azimuth angle, spatial gradient, and temporal rate of change. The individual model parameters are discussed in depth with examples using data from the NASA Scatterometer (NSCAT) and from the ERS. The model may be applied for increased accuracy in scatterometer, SAR, and wide-angle SAR studies. Examples illustrating the use of the model are included with one application focusing on analysis of inter-annual change and another focusing on increased sensitivity in studies of intra-annual change.
520 $a Six different melt detection method/sensor combinations are compared using data for the summer of 2000. The sensors include the Special Spectral Microwave Imager (SSM/I), SeaWinds on QuikSCAT (QSCAT), and ERS. A new method of melt detection is introduced that is based on a simple physical model relating the moisture content and depth of a layer of wet surface snow to a single channel melt detection threshold. (Abstract shortened by UMI.)
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