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Sovremennye problemy distantsionnogo zondirovaniya Zemli iz kosmosa
CURRENT PROBLEMS IN REMOTE SENSING OF THE EARTH FROM SPACE

  

Sovremennye problemy distantsionnogo zondirovaniya Zemli iz kosmosa, 2023, Vol. 20, No. 1, pp. 9-34

Satellite microwave remote sensing of the Arctic sea ice. Review

E.V. Zabolotskikh 1 , K.S. Khvorostovsky 1 , M.A. Zhivotovskaya 1 , E.V. Lvova 1 , S.M. Azarov 1 , E.A. Balashova 1 
1 Russian State Hydrometeorological University, Saint Petersburg, Russia
Accepted: 27.01.2023
DOI: 10.21046/2070-7401-2023-20-1-9-34
The paper presents an overview of the remote sensing methods for the Arctic sea ice cover characteristic retrieval from satellite microwave measurements. The basic physical principles of methods are described in relation to the estimation of various sea ice parameters. Both fundamental studies, aimed at the method development, and practical research studies, related to the method application, are analyzed. The review is structured in the form of sections, each of which is devoted to a particular type of instrument. Within the sections, the analysis is carried out specifically for each of the considered parameters. The issues related to the development of the methods for the retrieval of sea ice concentration (SIC), types, temperature and thickness from satellite microwave radiometer measurements are discussed. Classification of SIC retrieval methods and an analysis of error sources is presented, as well as the limitations for the estimation of the other sea ice cover parameters from passive microwave data. The methods for the retrieval of the Arctic sea ice edge and age composition from satellite scatterometer data are considered. New possibilities for the exploration of scatterometer measurements, associated with their high temporal resolution in the polar regions, are discussed. The approaches used in the classification of the sea surface based on synthetic aperture radar (SAR) data analysis and the main classification problems related to available Sentinel-1 SAR data are analyzed.
Keywords: Arctic, sea ice cover parameters, satellite remote sensing, microwave methods, microwave radiometers, scatterometers, SAR
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