Estimation of Melt Pond Fractions on First Year Sea Ice Using Compact Polarization SAR

doi:10.1002/2017JC013248

	Estimation of Melt Pond Fractions on First Year Sea Ice Using Compact Polarization SAR
	Li, Haiyan 1,2; Perrie, William 2; Li, Qun 3; Hou, Yijun 4,5
刊名	JOURNAL OF GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH-OCEANS
	2017-10-01
卷号	122 期号:10 页码:8145-8166
关键词	Compact Polarization (Cp) Sar Melt Pond Fraction Co-pol Ratio Cp Parameter First Sea Ice Fyi "compact Polarization And Quad-pol" ("cpqp") Model
ISSN号	2169-9275
DOI	10.1002/2017JC013248
文献子类	Article
英文摘要	Melt ponds are a common feature on Arctic sea ice. They are linked to the sea ice surface albedo and transmittance of energy to the ocean from the atmosphere and thus constitute an important process to parameterize in Arctic climate models and simulations. This paper presents a first attempt to retrieve the melt pond fraction from hybrid-polarized compact polarization (CP) SAR imagery, which has wider swath and shorter revisit time than the quad-polarization systems, e.g., from RADARSAT-2 (RS-2). The co-polarization (co-pol) ratio has been verified to provide estimates of melt pond fractions. However, it is a challenge to link CP parameters and the co-pol ratio. The theoretical possibility is presented, for making this linkage with the CP parameter C-22/C-11 (the ratio between the elements of the coherence matrix of CP SAR) for melt pond detection and monitoring with the tilted-Bragg scattering model for the ocean surface. The empirical transformed formulation, denoted as the compact polarization and quad-pol (CPQP) model, is proposed, based on 2062 RS-2 quad-pol SAR images, collocated with in situ measurements. We compared the retrieved melt pond fraction with CP parameters simulated from quad-pol SAR data with results retrieved from the co-pol ratio from quad-pol SAR observations acquired during the Arctic-Ice (Arctic-Ice Covered Ecosystem in a Rapidly Changing Environment) field project. The results are shown to be comparable for observed melt pond measurements in spatial and temporal distributions. Thus, the utility of CP mode SAR for melt pond fraction estimation on first year level ice is presented.
WOS关键词	C-BAND SAR ; SYNTHETIC-APERTURE RADAR ; CROSS-POLARIZATION ; IN-SITU ; ENVISAT ; OCEAN ; FREQUENCIES ; WATER ; SNOW
WOS研究方向	Oceanography
语种	英语
出版者	AMER GEOPHYSICAL UNION
WOS记录号	WOS:000415893300020
资助机构	National Natural Science Foundation of China(4177619) ; National Key Research and Development Program of China(2016YFC1402000 ; Canada's Office of Energy Research and Development ; Canadian Space Agency ; Canada's Office of Energy Research and Development Canada's Office of Energy Research and Development(1B00003C) ; Canadian Marine Environmental Observation Prediction and Reponse (MEOPAR)(1-02-10-0238) ; US Office of Naval Research(N00014-15-1-2611) ; 2016YFC1402705)
内容类型	期刊论文
源URL	[http://ir.qibebt.ac.cn/handle/337004/10469]
专题	中国科学院青岛生物能源与过程研究所
通讯作者	Li, Haiyan
作者单位	1.Univ Chinese Acad Sci, Chinese Acad Sci, Key Lab Computat Geodynam, Beijing, Peoples R China 2.Fisheries & Oceans Canada, Bedford Inst Oceanog, Dartmouth, NS, Canada 3.Polar Res Inst China, Shanghai, Peoples R China 4.Chinese Acad Sci, Inst Oceanol, Qingdao, Peoples R China 5.Chinese Acad Sci, Key Lab Ocean Circulat & Waves, Qingdao, Peoples R China
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Li, Haiyan,Perrie, William,Li, Qun,et al. Estimation of Melt Pond Fractions on First Year Sea Ice Using Compact Polarization SAR[J]. JOURNAL OF GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH-OCEANS,2017,122(10):8145-8166.
APA	Li, Haiyan,Perrie, William,Li, Qun,&Hou, Yijun.(2017).Estimation of Melt Pond Fractions on First Year Sea Ice Using Compact Polarization SAR.JOURNAL OF GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH-OCEANS,122(10),8145-8166.
MLA	Li, Haiyan,et al."Estimation of Melt Pond Fractions on First Year Sea Ice Using Compact Polarization SAR".JOURNAL OF GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH-OCEANS 122.10(2017):8145-8166.