Global monitoring of snow water equivalent using high frequency radar remote sensing

L Tsang, M Durand, C Derksen, AP Barros… - The Cryosphere …, 2021 - tc.copernicus.org
Seasonal snow cover is the largest single component of the cryosphere in areal extent,
covering an average of 46 million square km of Earth's surface (31% of the land area) each …

Polarimetric analysis of bi-seasonal monostatic and bistatic radar observations of a glacier accumulation zone at Ku-band

M Stefko, P Bernhard, O Frey… - IEEE Journal of Selected …, 2024 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
We present ground-based Ku-band radar observations of the snow cover on top of the Great
Aletsch Glacier carried out over two observation periods, in August 2021 and in March 2022 …

GNSS signal-based snow water equivalent determination for different snowpack conditions along a steep elevation gradient

A Capelli, F Koch, P Henkel, M Lamm… - The Cryosphere …, 2021 - tc.copernicus.org
Snow water equivalent (SWE) can be measured using low-cost Global Navigation Satellite
System (GNSS) sensors with one antenna placed below the snowpack and another one …

Wideband backscattering from alpine snow cover: A full-season study

R Naderpour, M Schwank, D Houtz… - … on Geoscience and …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This article experimentally investigates relationships between copol backscattering at a wide
range of frequencies (L-to Ka-bands) and snow–ground state parameters (SPs) in different …

FDM MIMO spaceborne SAR tomography by minimum redundancy wavenumber illumination

S Tebaldini, M Manzoni, L Ferro-Famil… - … on Geoscience and …, 2024 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This work investigates a new concept to finely resolve the vertical structure of natural media,
such as snow, ice, and vegetation, by using a formation of spaceborne synthetic aperture …

Time series X-and Ku-band ground-based synthetic aperture radar observation of snow-covered soil and its electromagnetic modeling

C **ong, J Shi, J Pan, H Xu, T Che… - … on Geoscience and …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The snow water equivalent (SWE, a measurement of the amount of water contained in snow
packs) is an important variable in earth systems. Microwave remote sensing provides a …

Modeling multi-frequency tomograms for snow stratigraphy

X Xu, H Shen, H Xu, L Tsang - IGARSS 2020-2020 IEEE …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Recently, the Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) Tomography (TomoSAR) has been used in
monitoring the snowpack from X-band to Ku-band. This technique provides unique access to …

[HTML][HTML] Impacts of post-depositional processing on nitrate isotopes in the snow and the overlying atmosphere at Summit, Greenland

Z Jiang, J Savarino, B Alexander, J Erbland… - The …, 2022 - tc.copernicus.org
The effect of post-depositional processing on the preservation of snow nitrate isotopes at
Summit, Greenland, remains a subject of debate and is relevant to the quantitative …

The ESA wideband microwave scatterometer (WBSCAT): Design and implementation

C Werner, M Suess, U Wegmüller… - IGARSS 2019-2019 …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
WBSCAT is a new terrestrial 1-40 GHz polarimetric scatterometer. This instrument, built for
the European Space Agency, with additional support from ETH WSL, is currently an element …

Aperture synthesis and calibration of the WBSCAT ground-based scatterometer

C Werner, O Frey, R Naderpour… - … and Remote Sensing …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
WBSCAT is a polarimetric scatterometer developed for the European Space Agency for
measuring microwave signatures of snow in support of the SnowLab and SnowLab-NG …