C016
Gearing Up for a Snow Satellite Mission: Advances in Radar Remote Sensing of Snow

Session ID#: 161054

Session Description:
Interest in seasonal snow has increased steadily during the past several years.  The societal importance from both a water resources and a natural hazards perspective has been highlighted by end users and responsible agencies in many parts of the world, along with the need for wide-scale observations of snow water equivalent.  Radar remote sensing—with its all-weather capability and high-resolution--offers a powerful tool to provide global observations of SWE, and significant advances have been made in the retrieval algorithms as well as their validation using field campaign data from the past decade.  We invite those with the latest results from those studies to present in this session, and to stimulate a thorough discussion of their readiness to form the basis of future satellite snow missions.
Index Terms:

0736 Snow [CRYOSPHERE]
0758 Remote sensing [CRYOSPHERE]
1855 Remote sensing [HYDROLOGY]
1863 Snow and ice [HYDROLOGY]

Primary Convener:  Edward J Kim, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States
Conveners:  Michael T Durand, Byrd Polar and Climate Research Center, Columbus, United States, Joshua M King, Environment and Climate Change Canada, Climate Reseach Division, Toronto, ON, Canada and Juha Lemmetyinen, Finnish Meteorological Institute, Helsinki, Finland
 
Using InSAR in Snow - Uavsar Coherence in the SnowEx Campaigns (1095108)
Zachary Keskinen, Boise State University, Boise, ID, United States and Hans-Peter Marshall, Boise State University, Department of Geosciences, Boise, ID, United States
 
Snow Water Equivalent retrieval using ALOS2 imagery over Northern Finland. (1161735)
Jorge Jorge Ruiz1, Juha Lemmetyinen1, Ioanna Merkouriadi1, Anna Kontu1, Jouni Pulliainen1 and Jaan Praks2, (1)Finnish Meteorological Institute, Helsinki, Finland, (2)Aalto University, School of Electrical Engineering, Espoo, Finland
 
Analysis of Airborne and Tower-Based Cross-Polarization Backscatter Data at X- and Ku- Bands for SWE Retrieval Algorithms. (1181161)
Firoz Kanti Borah, University of Michigan Ann Arbor, Ann Arbor, MI, United States, Leung Tsang, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, United States, Joel Johnson, Ohio State University, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Columbus, United States, Edward J Kim, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States, Michael T Durand, Byrd Polar and Climate Research Center, Columbus, United States and Ana Paula Barros, University of Illinois Urbana Champaign, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Urbana, United States
 
Indirect Estimation of the Vegetation Contribution to Microwave Backscatter Using Dual-Frequency SnowSAR Data (1192544)
Yueqian Cao, Duke University, Durham, NC, United States and Ana Paula Barros, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Urbana, United States
 
Mission Ready - Global Snow Water Equivalent from Space (1193167)
Ana Paula Barros1, Paul Siqueira2, Michael T Durand3, Carrie Vuyovich4, Batuhan Osmanoglu5, Hans-Peter Marshall6, Leung Tsang7, Edward J Kim5, Paul Houser8, Dorothy K Hall9, Matthew Sturm10, Mehmet Kurum11, Sujay V Kumar12, Joel Johnson13, Martin L Perrine12, Mark S Raleigh14, James L Garrison15, Michael Goldstein16 and Kristine M Larson17, (1)University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Urbana, United States, (2)University of Massachusetts, Amherst, Amherst, United States, (3)Byrd Polar and Climate Research Center, Columbus, United States, (4)University of New Hampshire, Hanover, United States, (5)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States, (6)Boise State University, Department of Geosciences, Boise, ID, United States, (7)University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, United States, (8)George Mason University Fairfax, Geography and Geoinformation Sciences, Fairfax, VA, United States, (9)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Cryospheric Sciences Laboratory, Greenbelt, MD, United States, (10)University of Alaska Fairbanks, Geophysical Institute, Fairbanks, AK, United States, (11)Mississippi State University, Mississippi State, MS, United States, (12)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, United States, (13)Ohio State University, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Columbus, United States, (14)Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR, United States, (15)Purdue University, School of Aeronautics and Astronautics, West Lafayette, IN, United States, (16)Babson College, Finance Division, Babson Park, MA, United States, (17)University of Colorado, Boulder, Aerospace Engineering Sciences, Boulder, CO, United States
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