BYU Scatterometer Climate Record Pathfinder (SCP) Data Sets
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 Externally Distributed Data Set
NSIDC does not archive this data set. Please contact the investigator or data compiler to acquire these data.
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Data Contributors
Parameters
- ICE EXTENT
- ICEBERGS
- RADAR BACKSCATTER
- SEA ICE ELEVATION
- SEA ICE MOTION
- SIGMA NAUGHT
Instruments
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Access External Data
Brigham Young University (BYU) Center for Remote Sensing holds various data from the Scatterometer Climate Record Pathfinder (SCP) program. The SCP is a NASA-sponsored project to develop scatterometer-based data time series to support climate studies of the Earth's cryosphere and biosphere. Originally developed to measure winds over the ocean from space, scatterometer data includes polar ice and tropical vegetation. Because the scatterometer radar signal can penetrate the surface, a scatterometer can observe subsurface/subcanopy climate-related features. These data sets consist of an Antarctic iceberg database, current Antarctic iceberg locations, sea ice extent products, QuickSCAT sea ice motion, and QuickSCAT global sigma-0 browse images. Data CitationEarly, D. S., and D. G. Long. 2001. Image reconstruction and enhanced resolution imaging from irregular samples. IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing 39(2): 291-302.
Long, D. G., M. R. Drinkwater, B. Holt, S. Saatchi, and C. Bertoia. 2001. Global ice and land climate studies using scatterometer image data. EOS, Transaction of the American Geophysical Union 82(43): 503. Includes electronic supplement: http://www.agu.org/eos_elec/010126e.html.
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