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| Title: | Ice Lead Orientation Characteristics in the Winter Beaufort Sea |
| Authors: | Cunningham, G.
Kwok, R.
Banfield, J. |
| Issue Date: | 8-Aug-1994 |
| Citation: | Pasadena, California, USA |
| Abstract: | The directional orientations of leads in the winter ice pack of the Beaufort Sea are studied both spatially and temporally. Data from the European Earth Resources Satellite-1 (ERS-1) Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) was used. The SAR data was produced in image form at the Alaska SAR Facility (ASF) with 100 x 100 m pixel resolution. The lead ice pixels, which included all non-multiyear ice, were defined using a simple thresholding of the radar backscatter values. The orientations of the leads covering the Beaufort Sea during the period of January through March of 1992 were derived using a lead skeletonization technique. Results show a strong temporal persistence in the distribution and orientation of the leads during this period. |
| URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/2014/34391 |
| Appears in Collections: | JPL TRS 1992+
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