High Resolution AMSR2 89 GHz Sea Ice Maps, since Aug 2012
High resolution sea ice charts are calculated daily by the PHAROS
group at IUP from data of the new sensor AMSR2 (successor of AMSR and AMSR-E) on the satellite "Shizuku" (GCOM-W1),
developed by the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency JAXA):
High Resolution AMSR-E 89 GHz Sea Ice Maps, 2003 - Oct2011
High resolution sea ice charts were calculated daily by the PHAROS
group at IUP from data of the two passive microwave sensors AMSR and
AMSR-E, both developed by the National Space Agency of Japan (NASDA
, now JAXA):
SSMIS sea ice charts
Since October 2011, daily sea ice maps are calculated based on the microwave radiometer SSMIS aboard the operational DMSP satellites. The resolution is considerable coarser.