C003
Advances in Radar Remote Sensing of the Cryosphere
Session ID#: 250832
Session Description:
Publicly accessible data from radar satellites, the advent of the commercial radar satellite industry, and recent airborne radar missions (e.g., NoSREx, NASA’s ABoVE, Operation IceBridge, and SnowEx) have vastly expanded the use of radar data to study geophysical phenomena. This trend is particularly prominent for the remote cryosphere, where environments are extremely sensitive to global changes and are thus undergoing dramatic transformations. Here, comprehensive in-situ observations are difficult to obtain, but radar observations are increasing exponentially and upcoming missions have explicit cryosphere science priorities (e.g., NISAR, Sentinel-1C). This session invites contributions that use any radar radar remote sensing method (e.g., SAR, InSAR, Altimetry), frequency, or platform (e.g., spaceborne, airborne, ground-based) to study any component of the cryosphere (e.g., snow, glaciers, ice sheets, sea ice, permafrost). Presentations may include scientific or operational studies, or method development.
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Index Terms:
0702 Permafrost [CRYOSPHERE]
0736 Snow [CRYOSPHERE]
0758 Remote sensing [CRYOSPHERE]
0776 Glaciology [CRYOSPHERE]
Primary Convener: Randall Bonnell, USGS Water Mission Area, Earth Systems Processes Division, Lakewood, United States
Conveners: Jack Tarricone, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States; University of Nevada, Reno, Graduate Program of Hydrologic Sciences, Reno, United States, Devon Dunmire, KU Leuven, Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Leuven, Belgium and Merritt Harlan, University of Massachusetts Amherst, Civil & Environmental Engineering, Amherst, United States
Mapping snow avalanches using L-band InSAR: Implications for NISAR (1972654)
Richard R Forster, University of Utah, School of Environment, Society, and Sustainability, Salt Lake City, United States, Jewell Lund, University of Wyoming, Haub School of Environment & Natural Resources, Laramie, United States, Avina Khatri, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT, United States, Elias J Deeb, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Cold Regions Research and Engineering Laboratory, Hanover, United States and Hans-Peter Marshall, Boise State University, Department of Geosciences, Boise, ID, United States
The Role of NISAR as Part of a Virtual International SAR Constellation for Ice Sheet Science (1982277)
Bernd Scheuchl1, Eric J Rignot1, Sam Herreid2, Jean Baptiste Barré2, Mattia Poinelli3 and Sina Shamsian4, (1)University of California Irvine, Department of Earth System Science, Irvine, CA, United States, (2)University of California, Irvine, Earth System Science, Irvine, United States, (3)University of California Irvine, Earth System Science, Irvine, CA, United States, (4)University of California Irvine, Irvine, CA, United States
Polar Geospatial Center: High-volume Remote Sensing Data Access and Geospatial Discipline Knowledge at the Earth’s Poles and Beyond (1987562)
James Dickson1, Cole Kelleher2, Jesse Bakker3, Michael Cloutier2, Danny Im4, Rory Johnson4, James Klassen4, Charles Nguyen5, Cathleen Elizabeth Torres Parisian4, Claire C Porter6, Devin Power4, Nicole Schiller3, Eli Schlossberg7 and Miles Sterner8, (1)University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, United States, (2)Polar Geospatial Center, St Paul, MN, United States, (3)University of Minnesota Twin Cities, Minneapolis, United States, (4)Polar Geospatial Center, St Paul, United States, (5)University of Minnesota Twin Cities, Minneapolis, MN, United States, (6)University of Minnesota, St. Paul, United States, (7)University of Minnesota, St Paul, MN, UNITED STATES, (8)University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, United States
Evaluation of Arctic Sea Ice Products Derived from the Snowfox Machine Learning Algorithm (1995465)
Rachel Lazzaro1,2 and Chirstopher Jackson2,3, (1)Global Science and Technology Inc, Greenbelt, United States, (2)National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Center for Satellite Applications and Research, College Park, United States, (3)Global Ocean Associates, Alexandria, United States
Fine-Resolution Mapping of Near-Bed Ice Layers with Ultra-Wideband Radars (1996149)
Syed Rizvi1, Mishal Thapa2, Brett Fraysher2, Allain Rapadas2, Sara Neshani1, Drew Taylor3, Joohan Lee4, Dorthe Dahl-Jensen5, Sivaprasad Gogineni3, Shriniwas Kolpuke6 and C Chung4, (1)University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, AL, United States, (2)University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, United States, (3)Remote Sensing Center, University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, United States, (4)Korea Polar Research Institute, Incheon, South Korea, (5)University of Copenhagen, Physics of Ice, Climate and Earth, København K, Denmark, (6)EH Group, INC, Tuscaloosa, United States
Assessing SAR satellite snow retrievals in the San Juan Mountains, Colorado (1958038)
Adrian Marziliano, University of New Mexico Main Campus, Albuquerque, NM, United States, Ryan Webb, University of Wyoming, Laramie, United States, Eric Ostrom Lindsey, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, United States, David E Shean, University of Washington, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Seattle, United States, J Michelle Hu, University of Utah, School of Environment, Society & Sustainability, Salt Lake City, UT, United States and Yolanda C Lin, Nanyang Technological University, Asian School of the Environment, Singapore, Singapore
Antarctic-wide Grounding Line Mapping from COSMO-SkyMed DInSAR: A New Benchmark Dataset for Ice Sheet Dynamics and Sea-Level Projections (1861910)
Natalya Ross1, Graziano Spinelli2, Luigi Dini2 and Pietro Milillo1, (1)University of Houston, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Houston, TX, United States, (2)Italian Space Agency, Matera, Italy
Arctic Active Layer Freeze-Thaw Deformation Inferred from Co-located InSAR and GPS Observations (1911966)
Alexandre Lasalarie1, Jingyi Chen1, Yue WU1, M. Bayani Cardenas2 and George W Kling3, (1)The University of Texas at Austin, Aerospace Engineering & Engineering Mechanics, Austin, United States, (2)University of Texas at Austin, Earth and Planetary Sciences, Austin, United States, (3)University of Michigan, Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Ann Arbor, MI, United States
Assessing Passive Radar Sounding for Firn Aquifer Monitoring in Svalbard and Antarctica (1917973)
Nainika Gupta1, Sean Thomas Peters1, Angela Wang1 and Riley Culberg2, (1)University of Colorado at Boulder, Aerospace Engineering Sciences, Boulder, United States, (2)Cornell University, Department of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, Ithaca, United States
Assimilating Interferometric Phase Data from UAVSAR and Sentinel-1 for Snow Water Equivalent Estimation: Insights from the SnowEx Campaign (1923767)
Maya Hildebrand1, Steven A Margulis1, Xiaolan Xu2, Rashmi Shah3, Hans-Peter Marshall4, Elias J Deeb5, Manuela Girotto6 and Simon H Yueh2, (1)UCLA, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Los Angeles, United States, (2)Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, United States, (3)Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, United States, (4)Boise State University, Department of Geosciences, Boise, ID, United States, (5)U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Cold Regions Research and Engineering Laboratory, Hanover, United States, (6)University of California Berkeley, Department of Environmental Science, Policy, and Management, Berkeley, United States
Broadband Dielectric Characterization of Permafrost Across Freeze-Thaw Cycles (1857093)
MD Mashfiqur Rahman, Department of Engineering Science and Mechanics, The Pennsylvania State University, State College, United States; The Pennsylvania State University, Engineering Science and Mechanics, University Park, United States, Arafat Hossain, Graduate Student, State College, United States, Steven Perini, Technical Staff, State College, United States, Mohamed Eltantawy, Graduate Student, University Park, United States, Dipika Mandal, Department of Engineering Science and Mechanics, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, United States, Tugce Baser, Saint Louis University, Department of Civil Engineering, Saint Louis, United States and Michael Lanagan, The Pennsylvania State University, Engineering Science & Mechanics, University Park, United States
Deriving Arctic Sea Ice Concentrations from SAR Products and Geospatial Modeling. (1949191)
Ryenne Julian, South Dakota School of Mines and Technology, Atmospheric and Environmental Sciences, Rapid City, United States, Sean Helfrich, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Center for Satellite Applications and Research, College Park, United States, Walter Clark, NOAA, College Park, MD, United States and Chirstopher Jackson, Global Ocean Associates, Alexandria, United States
Distribution of the Basal Conditions at Lake Vostok, Antarctica, from Radar Reflectometry (1949795)
Cyril Grima1, Krista Marie Soderlund2, Jamin Greenbaum3, Tyler Pelle4, Duncan A Young5 and Donald D Blankenship5, (1)Institute for Geophysics, Austin, TX, United States, (2)University of Texas at Austin, Institute for Geophysics, Austin, United States, (3)Scripps Institution of Oceanography, La Jolla, United States, (4)University of California - Irvine, Irvine, United States, (5)University of Texas, Institute for Geophysics, Austin, United States
Evaluating the Potential of Synthetic Aperture Radar to Detect and Monitor Caribou (1950556)
Lindsay Stark, Boise State University, Boise, ID, United States, Zachary Hoppinen, USACE-ERDC CRREL, Hanover, United States, Coleman Kane, Boise State University, Boise, United States, Tate Meehan, U.S. Army Cold Regions Research and Engineering Laboratory, Hanover, NH, United States and Hans-Peter Marshall, Boise State University, Department of Geosciences, Boise, ID, United States
Frozen on 35 mm Film: Unlocking 1970s Airborne Radar Echo Sounding Survey in Ross Ice Shelf, Antarctica (1955486)
Angelo Tarzona1, Winnie Chu1, Dustin M Schroeder2, Matthew Siegfried3, Hannah Verboncoeur3, Cameron Combs4, Raina Banerjee5 and Rebecca Yin6, (1)Georgia Institute of Technology Main Campus, Atlanta, United States, (2)Stanford University, Department of Geophysics, Stanford, United States, (3)Colorado School of Mines, Department of Geophysics, Golden, United States, (4)University of Houston - Victoria, Victoria, United States, (5)Wheeler High School, Atlanta, United States, (6)Woodward Academy, Atlanta, United States
Radar-Derived Ice Fabric Anisotropy and Anisotropic Scattering in Thwaites Glacier, West Antarctica (1960231)
Duyi Li1, Donald D Blankenship1, Duncan A Young1, Shuai Yan1,2, Dillon Buhl1, Lucas Beem3, Christopher Pierce4, Choon-Ki Lee5, Kenneth D Mankoff6, Enrica Quartini7, Scott D Kempf8, Gregory Ng1 and Won Sang Lee5, (1)University of Texas, Institute for Geophysics, Austin, United States, (2)University of Washington, Seattle, United States, (3)Montana State University, Department of Earth Sciences, Bozeman, United States, (4)Montana State University, Bozeman, MT, United States, (5)Korea Polar Research Institute, Division of Glacier and Earth Sciences, Incheon, Korea, Republic of (South), (6)NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies, New York, United States, (7)Cornell University, Astronomy, Ithaca, United States, (8)University of Texas Institute for Geophysics, Austin, United States
Revealing the Internal Structure of the Rock Glacier – Debris Covered Glacier Continuum from Drone-Based Ground-Penetrating Radar (1866197)
Roberto Aguilar, University of Arizona, Lunar and Planetary Laboratory, Tucson, AZ, United States, John W Holt, University of Arizona, Geosciences, Lunar and Planetary Laboratory, Tucson, AZ, United States, Michael Christoffersen, Georgia Institute of Technology, School of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, Atlanta, United States, Tyler Meng, Washington University in St Louis, Earth, Environmental, and Planetary Sciences, St. Louis, United States and Stefano Nerozzi, University of Arizona, Lunar and Planetary Laboratory, Tucson, United States
SNOWWI -- The new kid on the block, a three frequency wide-swath interferometric SAR for characterizing the snowpack (1937835)
Paul Siqueira1, Marc Closa Tarres2, Joseph Maloyan2, Elias J Deeb3, Hans-Peter Marshall4, Takuya Seaver2, Leung Tsang5, Anthony Migridichian2, Firoz Kanti Borah6, Max Adam2 and Gordon Farquharson7, (1)University of Massachusetts Amherst, Electrical and Computer Engineering, Amherst, MA, United States, (2)University of Massachusetts Amherst, Electrical and Computer Engineering, Amherst, United States, (3)U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Cold Regions Research and Engineering Laboratory, Hanover, United States, (4)Boise State University, Department of Geosciences, Boise, ID, United States, (5)University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, United States, (6)University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, United States, (7)Capella Space, San Francisco, United States
Sub-daily Quasi-Tomographic Monitoring of Alpine Snow Properties Using Tower-Based C-Band Radar (1937919)
Jaron Vandenbroucke1, Hans-Peter Marshall2, Tobias Jonas3, Isis Brangers4, Gabrielle J.M. De Lannoy5, Bert Cox6, Guus Leenders6, Hans Lievens7 and H-CEL, (1)Ghent University, Hydro-Climate Extremes Lab (H-CEL), Ghent, Belgium, (2)Boise State University, Department of Geosciences, Boise, ID, United States, (3)SLF / WSL, Davos Dorf, Switzerland, (4)Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Leuven, Belgium, (5)KU Leuven, Leuven, Belgium, (6)KU Leuven, Department of Electrical Engineering, Ghent, Belgium, (7)Ghent University, Hydro-Climate Extremes Lab (H-CEL), Gent, Belgium
SWOT Ka-band Radar Observations of Cryosphere (Snow/Ice) and Surface Water Dynamics in Cold Regions (Invited) (1956694)
Sonam Futi Sherpa, University of Utah, School of Environment, Society and Sustainability, Salt Lake City, United States and Laurence C Smith, Brown University, Department of Earth, Environmental and Planetary Sciences (DEEPS), Providence, United States
Using the RadarSat Constellation Mission (RCM) to Track Fast Moving Glaciers and Changes in Sea Ice in Antarctica (1851364)
Sina Shamsian1, Eric J Rignot2, Bernd Scheuchl2, Mattia Poinelli3, Sam Herreid4 and Jean Baptiste Barré4, (1)University of California Irvine, Irvine, CA, United States, (2)University of California Irvine, Department of Earth System Science, Irvine, CA, United States, (3)Delft University of Technology, Geoscience and Remote Sensing, Delft, Netherlands, (4)University of California, Irvine, Earth System Science, Irvine, United States
Wet snow mapping threshold validation using Sentinel-1 SAR and in situ data in Himalaya and Utah mountain (1931889)
Smriti Srivastava, PhD1, Richard R Forster2, Summer Rupper2 and Dr. Mohd Farooq Azam3, (1)University of Utah, School of Environment, Society and Sustainability, Salt Lake City, UT, United States, (2)University of Utah, School of Environment, Society, and Sustainability, Salt Lake City, United States, (3)Department of Civil Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Indore, India, Simrol, Indore, India
