First-Year and Multiyear Sea Ice Incidence Angle Normalization of Dual-Polarized Sentinel-1 SAR Images in the Beaufort Sea
| Autor: | Céline Heuzé, Leif E. B. Eriksson, Wiebke Aldenhoff, Yufang Ye |
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| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Rok vydání: | 2020 |
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Atmospheric Science
010504 meteorology & atmospheric sciences Geophysics. Cosmic physics 0211 other engineering and technologies 02 engineering and technology Beaufort sea 01 natural sciences Dual polarized Sea ice Computers in Earth Sciences TC1501-1800 Physics::Atmospheric and Oceanic Physics 021101 geological & geomatics engineering 0105 earth and related environmental sciences geography geography.geographical_feature_category QC801-809 Noise correction Polarization (waves) Geodesy sea ice Ocean engineering Linear relationship Incidence angle Sentinel-1 Ice type Angular dependence Astrophysics::Earth and Planetary Astrophysics Geology |
| Zdroj: | IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and Remote Sensing, Vol 13, Pp 1540-1550 (2020) |
| ISSN: | 2151-1535 |
| Popis: | Automatic and visual sea ice classification of SAR imagery is impeded by the incidence angle dependence of backscatter intensities. Knowledge of the angular dependence of different ice types is therefore necessary to account for this effect. While consistent estimates exist for HH polarization for different ice types, they are lacking HV polarization data, especially for multiyear sea ice. Here we investigate the incidence angle dependence of smooth and rough/deformed first-year and multiyear ice of different ages for wintertime dual-polarization Sentinel-1 C-band SAR imagery in the Beaufort Sea. Assuming a linear relationship, this dependence is determined using the difference in incidence angle and backscatter intensities from ascending and descending images of the same area. At cross-polarization rough/deformed first-year sea ice shows the strongest angular dependence with $-\text{0.11}$ dB/ $1^{\circ }$ followed by multiyear sea ice with $-\text{0.07}$ dB/ $\text{1}^{\circ }$ , and old multiyear ice (older than three years) with $-\text{0.04}$ dB/ $\text{1}^{\circ }$ . The noise floor is found to have a strong impact on smooth first-year ice and estimated slopes are therefore not fully reliable. At co-polarization, we obtained slope values of $-0.24$ , $-0.20$ , $-\text{0.15},$ and $-\text{0.10}$ dB/ $\text{1}^{\circ }$ for smooth first-year, rough/deformed first-year, multiyear, and old multiyear sea ice, respectively. Furthermore, we show that imperfect noise correction of the first subswath influences the obtained slopes for multiyear sea ice. We demonstrate that incidence angle normalization should not only be applied to co-polarization but should also be considered for cross-polarization images to minimize intra ice type variation in backscatter intensity throughout the entire image swath. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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