Sea and Freshwater Ice Concentration from VIIRS on Suomi NPP and the Future JPSS Satellites

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• Journal Title:
  Remote Sensing
• Personal Author:
  Liu, Yinghui ; Key, Jeffrey ; Mahoney, Robert
• NOAA Program & Office:
  NESDIS (National Environmental Satellite, Data, and Information Service) ; STAR (Center for Satellite Applications and Research) ; GOES-R (Geostationary Operation Environmental Satellite-R Series) ; JPSS (Joint Polar Satellite System Program Office) ; CIMSS (Cooperative Institute for Meteorological Satellite Studies)
• Description:
  Information on ice is important for shipping, weather forecasting, and climate monitoring. Historically, ice cover has been detected and ice concentration has been measured using relatively low-resolution space-based passive microwave data. This study presents an algorithm to detect ice and estimate ice concentration in clear-sky areas over the ocean and inland lakes and rivers using high-resolution data from the Visible Infrared Imaging Radiometer Suite (VIIRS) onboard the Suomi National Polar Orbiting Partnership (S-NPP) and on future Joint Polar Satellite System (JPSS) satellites, providing spatial detail that cannot be obtained with passive microwave data. A threshold method is employed with visible and infrared observations to identify ice, then a tie-point algorithm is used to determine the representative reflectance/temperature of pure ice, estimate the ice concentration, and refine the ice cover mask.
• Keywords:
  Ice Ice Concentration JPSS Remote Sensing Suomi NPP
• Source:
  Remote Sens. 2016, 8(6), 523
• DOI:
  https://doi.org/10.3390/rs8060523
• Document Type:
  Journal Article
• Rights Information:
  CC BY
• Compliance:
  Submitted
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