The paper Comparing SAR based short time-lag cross-correlation and Doppler derived sea ice drift velocities, by Thomas Kræmer, Harald Johnsen, Camilla Brekke and Geir Engen has today been accepted for publishing in IEEE Transactions on geoscience and remote sensing. Congratulations to Thomas and the co-authors!

Congratulations to Malin Johansson, Camilla Brekke, Gunnar Spreen and Jennifer King on getting the paper X-, C-, and L-band SAR signatures of newly formed sea ice in Arctic leads during winter and spring accepted for publication in the high impact journal Remote Sensing of Environment. The paper makes use of an extensive synthetic aperture radar (SAR) data…

Two papers have recently been accepted by Annals of Glaciology: The paper On the potential of hand-held GPS tracking of fjord ice features for remote-sensing validation, by Postdoc Jean Negrel, Sebastian Gerland, Anthony Doulgeris, Tom Rune Lauknes and Line Rouyet.   And the paper Can we extend local sea-ice measurements to satellite scale? An example from the N-ICE2015…

Wolfgang Dierking and his colleague Jakob Griebel from the Alfred Wegener Institute (AWI) published a paper in “Remote Sensing” on the improved detection of narrow deformation structures in sea ice (with Jakob as first author). The major idea is to avoid blurring of discontinuities in the field of sea ice drift. Abstract: Retrievals of sea…

The article “Sea ice local surface topography from single-pass satellite InSAR measurements: a feasibility study” by Wolfgang Dierking, Oliver Lang and Thomas Busche has been published in the journal The Cryoshpere. Abstract:  Quantitative parameters characterizing the sea ice surface topography are needed in geophysical investigations such as studies on atmosphere–ice interactions or sea ice mechanics.…

The paper “Impact of data assimilation on Eulerian versus Lagrangian estimates of upper ocean transport” by Ann Kristin Sperrevik, Johannes Röhrs and Kai Håkon Christensen at the Norwegian Meteorological Institute has recently been accepted in the Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans. Abstract: Using four-dimensional variational analysis, we produce an estimate of the state of a…

The paper “Lake and Fjord Ice Imaging Using a Multifrequency Ground-Based Tomographic SAR System” by Temesgen Gebrie Yitayew, Laurent Ferro-Famil, Torbjørn Eltoft and Stefano Tebaldini has recently been published in IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and Remote Sensing. Abstract:  The radar backscatter response of snow covered lake and fjord ice is investigated…

The open access paper “Dynamics of the Terra Nova Bay Polynya: The potential of multi-sensor satellite observations”, by Thomas Hollands, Alfred Wegener Institute, and Wolfgang Dierking, Alfred Wegener Institute and CIRFA/UiT, has been published by the journal Remote Sensing of Environment. Abstract:  Research on processes leading to formation, maintenance, and disappearance of polynyas in the…