Seminar Ozean, Eis, Atmosphäre

Sea ice information is of importance for many applications in climatology, meteorology, oceanography, biology, and perhaps even troposheric chemistry, as well as for ship navigation in polar regions. The imaging microwave radiometer SSM/I is the "workhorse" for satellite sea ice remote sensing on a large scale. Synthetic aperture radar systems such as the ERS-SAR provide very high resolution images on a regional scale. A brief introduction in the principles of sea ice remote sensing with SSM/I and ERS-SAR will be given and some applications will be presented.