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Congratulations Dr Muhammad Assim!
This Friday graduated our student Muhammad Assim. His defense with the title 'Optical remote sensing of water quality parameters retrieval in the Barents Sea' shows the broad scope of the…
CIRFA seminar (13 April) – From sea ice to coastal erosion in Svalbard
In our next seminar on 13 April at 14:00 our guest at CIRFA, Zuzanna Świrad from Institute of Geophysics, Polish Academy of Sciences, will present her latest work on coastal…
New Paper: Sea ice and snow characteristics from year-long transects
This new paper lead by Polona Itkin was published today in Elementa: Science of Anthropocene. Repeated transects have become the backbone of spatially distributed ice and snow thickness measurements crucial…
CIRFA seminar (30 March): Ocean Color Remote Sensing
Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) on the Terra satellite on July 6, 2016, the acquired this image of a phytoplankton bloom in the Barents Sea. Image Credit: NASA image by…
New Paper: Sea ice classification of TerraSAR-X ScanSAR images for the MOSAiC expedition
The paper Sea ice classification of TerraSAR-X ScanSAR images for the MOSAiC expedition incorporating per-class incidence angle dependency of image texture by Wenkai Guo, Polona Itkin, Suman Singha, Anthony P.…
New paper: SAR and Passive Microwave Fusion Scheme
The paper SAR and Passive Microwave Fusion Scheme: A Test Case on Sentinel-1/AMSR-2 for Sea Ice Classification lead by a CIRFA PhD student Eduard Khachatrian just got published in the…
CIRFA seminar (16 March) – Arctic Sea Ice Thickness and Snow Depth
Shiming Xu from Department of Earth System Science, Tsinghua University, China is visiting CIRFA and will present a seminar with the title: 'Satellite Retrieval of Arctic Sea Ice Thickness and…
Field day 2023: Arctic experience on fjord ice
On Friday 24 February we used our beautiful Arctic surroundings to organize a field day for our master and PhD students on fjord ice. Ramfjorden is less than on hour…
CIRFA seminar (2 March) – NPI web tools for field work assistance and sea ice analytics
With our next CIRFA seminar we are continuing our series dedicated to the navigation in the ice covered seas. Mikhail Itkin from the data center at Norwegian Polar Institute (NPI)…
Colors of Ocean and Machine Learning
Earlier CIRFA exchange student Darshika Manral is currently pursuing her PhD in Utrecht University. Her first paper just got published in Frontiers of Marine Science titled: Computing marine plankton connectivity…