Meltpond2000 Polarimetric Scanning Radiometer Sea Ice Brightness Temperatures  View Catalog Page Entry ID
NSIDC-0208
Summary
The Meltpond2000 project was the first in a series of Arctic and Antarctic aircraft campaigns to validate sea ice algorithms developed for the Advanced Microwave Scanning Radiometer - Earth Observing System (AMSR-E), primarily to quantify errors in AMSR-E sea ice products resulting from the presence of melt ponds. The AMSR-E validation effort addresses data quality through comprehensive calibration and validation programs. These programs characterize and document the accuracy and precision of AMSR-E observations and their derived products. Data were collected from five flights over Baffin Bay and the Canadian Archipelago from 26 June 2000 to 6 July 2000. All measurements fall within 68.967 deg N - 76.422 deg N, 63.197 deg W - 105.022 deg W. Spatial resolution varies from 0.13 km to 3.6 km, depending on the sensor. Data are provided as MATLAB files, requiring MATLAB version 5.3 or greater. These data and MATLAB programs to generate brightness temperature (TB) maps are available via FTP.
Geographic Coverage
Spatial Coordinates:
N: 76.42194°
S: 68.96694°
E: -63.19694°
W: -105.02194°
Min Altitude: 1371.6 meters
Max Altitude: 5791.2 meters
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Data Set Citation
Dataset Creator: M. Klein, A.J. Gasiewski, D. Cavalieri, T. Markus
Dataset Title: Meltpond2000 Polarimetric Scanning Radiometer Sea Ice Brightness Temperatures
Dataset Release Date: 2004-02-13
Dataset Release Place: Boulder, Colorado USA
Dataset Publisher: NSIDC: National Snow and Ice Data Center
Online Resource: http://nsidc.org/data/nsidc-0208.html
Temporal Coverage
Start Date: 2000-06-26
Stop Date: 2000-07-06
Location Keywords
- OCEAN ARCTIC OCEAN
Science Keywords
- Cryosphere Sea Ice Ice Temperature
- Oceans Sea Ice Ice Temperature
- Spectral/Engineering Infrared Wavelengths Brightness Temperature
- Spectral/Engineering Microwave Brightness Temperature
Ancillary Keywords
- Aircraft
- AMSR-E
- Arctic Sea Ice
- Baffin Bay
- Canadian Arctic
- DAAC
- EOSDIS
- Meltpond2000
- NASA
- NSIDC
- Passive Microwave Brightness Temperatures
- PSR
- Radiometers
- Sea Ice
- Sea Ice Temperatures
- SLFMR
Platform
Instrument
- INFRARED RADIOMETERS
- RADIOMETERS
Quality
Data in the TB maps are not compensated for incident angle variations caused either by aicraft roll and pitch or, in the case of the SLFMR, by the cross-track scanning mode. Although the PSR scans at fixed angles, aircraft pitch and roll variations influence the incident angle by as much as +/- 3 deg in angle, or roughly +/- 7 K for vertical and +/- 4 K for horizontal polarization over water. All channels worked well providing approximately 0.5 K to 1 K root-mean-square (RMS) noise for 20 ms integration. One exception was the 89 GHz vertical channel, which was not calibrated due to spurious noise (Klein et al. 2001). The 89 GHz noise is presumed to be from iron epoxy debris on the sensor.
Data Set Progress
complete
Originating Center
NSIDC_DAAC
Data Center
NASA DAAC at the National Snow and Ice Data Center
Data Center URL: http://nsidc.org/daac/index.html
Data Center Personnel
Name: NSIDC User Services
Phone: 1 303 492-6199
Fax: 1 303 492-2468
Email: nsidc@nsidc.org
Contact Address:
- National Snow and Ice Data Center
- CIRES, 449 UCB
- University of Colorado
City: Boulder
Province or State: CO
Postal Code: 80309-0449
Country: USA
National Snow and Ice Data Center
Data Center URL: http://nsidc.org
Data Center Personnel
Name: NSIDC User Services
Phone: 1 303 492-6199
Fax: 1 303 492-2468
Email: nsidc@nsidc.org
Contact Address:
- National Snow and Ice Data Center
- CIRES, 449 UCB
- University of Colorado
City: Boulder
Province or State: CO
Postal Code: 80309-0449
Country: USA
Distribution
Distribution Media: FTP
Distribution Size: 647 MB
Distribution Format: MATLAB
Personnel
Marian Klein
Role: INVESTIGATOR
Contact Address:
- University of Colorado at Boulder - NOAA
- Center for Environmental Technology (CET)
City: Boulder
Province or State: CO
Postal Code: 80305-3328
Country: USA
Albin J. Gasiewski
Role: INVESTIGATOR
Contact Address:
- NOAA
- Environmental Technology Laboratory
- NOAA Environmental Technology Laboratory
- 325 Broadway R/ETL
City: Boulder
Province or State: CO
Postal Code: 80305
Donald J. Cavalieri
Role: INVESTIGATOR
Phone: 1 301 614-5901 x
Fax: 1 301 614-5644 x
Email: Donald.J.Cavalieri@nasa.gov
Contact Address:
- NASA Goddard Space Flight Center
- Laboratory for Hydrospheric Processes
- NASA/GSFC
- Mail Code: 615
City: Greenbelt
Province or State: MD
Postal Code: 20771
Country: USA
Thorsten Markus
Role: INVESTIGATOR
Phone: 1 301 614-5882
Email: thorsten.markus@nasa.gov
Contact Address:
- Goddard Space Flight Center
- NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center
- Instrumentation Sciences Branch
- Code 614.6
City: Greenbelt
Province or State: MD
Postal Code: 20771
Country: USA
Related URL
VIEW PROJECT HOME PAGE
AMSR-E Validation Data
VIEW PROJECT HOME PAGE
Meltpond2000
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Sea Ice Data at NSIDC
VIEW PROJECT HOME PAGE
Sea Ice Products at NSIDC
Reference
Cavalieri, D.J. 2000. EOS Aqua AMSR-E sea ice validation program: Meltpond2000 flight report. NASA Technical Memorandum, NASA/TM 2000-209972. Greenbelt, MD, USA: NASA Goddard Space Flight Center.
Ivanoff, A. 'Meltpond2000.' Sea Ice Remote Sensing. 23 May 2003. http://polynya.gsfc.nasa.gov/seaice_mp2000.html. Accessed January 2004.
Klein, M., A.J. Gasiewski, K. Schuler, D. Cavalieri, T. Markus, and A. Yevgrafov. 2001. Sea ice brightness imagery observed during the Meltpond 2002 experiment. In Scanning the present and resolving the future, Proceedings of the International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium, 2001. Vol. VI, p. 2853-2855.
Klein, M., and A.J. Gasiewski. 2002. Meltpond 2000 PSR processing - final report. Boulder, CO, USA: NOAA Environmental Technology Laboratory.
Klein, M., and A.J. Gasiewski. 2000. CAMEX3 polarimetric scanning radiometer MATLAB mapping software description. Boulder, CO, USA: NOAA Environmental Technology Laboratory.
Markus, T., D. J. Cavalieri, and A. Ivanoff. 2002. The potential of using Landsat 7 data for the classification of sea ice surface conditions during summer. Annals of Glaciology 34: 415-419.
Markus, T., D. J. Cavalieri, M. A. Tschudi, and A. Ivanoff. 2003. Comparison of aerial video and Landsat 7 data over ponded sea ice. Remote Sensing of the Environment 86: 458-469.
Metadata Name and Version
Metadata Name: CEOS IDN DIF
Metadata Version: 9.7
Creation and Review Dates
DIF Creation Date: 2004-02-13
Last DIF Revision Date: 2012-07-12
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