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Discrimination of Arctic multi-year ice from first-year ice using SCATSAT-1 data


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1 Department of Physics, National Institute of Technology Manipur, Langol, Imphal, Manipur 795 004, India
2 Department of Physics, Manipur Technical University, Takyelpat, Imphal, Manipur 795 004, India
 

this study to discriminate the Arctic multi-year ice from the first-year ice. We have used the backscattering coefficient, the brightness temperature and the gamma-naught data from the ISRO's miniature satellite SCATSAT-1 for this study. Principal component analysis in conjunction with the ISODATA unsupervised classification technique has been used to achieve the goal of this study. The classification results so obtained have been compared with a well-established sea ice type data product from the EUMETSAT's Ocean & Sea Ice Satellite Application Facility. Moreover, we have employed a change detection technique to ascertain the changes in the Arctic multi-year ice for the SCATSAT-1 period 2016 through 2018 (autumn and spring changes).
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Khoisnam Nanaoba Singh
Department of Physics, National Institute of Technology Manipur, Langol, Imphal, Manipur 795 004, India
Urikhinbam Somas Singh
Department of Physics, Manipur Technical University, Takyelpat, Imphal, Manipur 795 004, India

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this study to discriminate the Arctic multi-year ice from the first-year ice. We have used the backscattering coefficient, the brightness temperature and the gamma-naught data from the ISRO's miniature satellite SCATSAT-1 for this study. Principal component analysis in conjunction with the ISODATA unsupervised classification technique has been used to achieve the goal of this study. The classification results so obtained have been compared with a well-established sea ice type data product from the EUMETSAT's Ocean & Sea Ice Satellite Application Facility. Moreover, we have employed a change detection technique to ascertain the changes in the Arctic multi-year ice for the SCATSAT-1 period 2016 through 2018 (autumn and spring changes).