PREPARATIONS BY THE CANADIAN ICE SERVICE FOR FUTURE EARTH OBSERVATION MISSIONS

摘要

The Canadian Ice Service (CIS) is responsible for the daily monitoring and reporting of sea ice, lake ice, and iceberg conditions in Canadian coastal regions and adjacent international waters. The CIS is also responsible for the Integrated Satellite Tracking of Pollution (ISTOP) program, monitoring Canadian coastal waters for the illegal discharge of oil from ships. To fulfil these mandates, the CIS relies primarily on satellite SAR imagery to prepare manual analyses and associated products. The transition to the Sentinel-1 and RADARSAT Constellation mission (RCM) represents unique opportunities, challenges and potential risks to the CIS operational programs. Transitioning existing SARbased operations into the constellation era is paramount, while concurrently expanding existing automated data assimilation and image classification systems to prepare routine analyses over all areas of CIS responsibility. These data assimilation systems, coupled with other advanced remote sensing techniques, will be further developed to take advantage of the more frequent coverage. This paper will identify the new application and product development CIS expects to achieve through the unique capabilities provided by these missions.