Antarctic Remote Ice Sensing Experiments(ARISE) with Australian National Antarctic Research Expedition in 2003

摘要

[ABSTRACT] An extensive sea ice experiment was conducted in East Antarctic seasonal sea ice area. The primary objective of the experiment was to validate sea ice products retrieved from new passive microwave satellite sensors, AMSR and AMSR-E and also to assess the performance of conventional algorithms. New instruments to measure ice thickness and snow depth over sea ice were also tested. The challenge was to collect enough data sufficient enough to validate AMSR and AMSR-E having wide pixel size. To overcome this, four different types of data having different areal coverage and altitude, in situ data from ice stations and helicopter floe hopping, aerial photography and video and along-track underway data were obtained. All these data complement each other and combined with visible range satellite data，the validation process is completed.