Review of Earth science research using terrestrial laser scanning

J Telling, A Lyda, P Hartzell, C Glennie - Earth-Science Reviews, 2017 - Elsevier
The application of advanced remote sensing technologies, including terrestrial laser
scanning (TLS), to the Earth sciences has increased rapidly in the last two decades …

Sea ice roughness overlooked as a key source of uncertainty in CryoSat‐2 ice freeboard retrievals

JC Landy, AA Petty, M Tsamados… - Journal of Geophysical …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
ESA's CryoSat‐2 has transformed the way we monitor Arctic sea ice, providing routine
measurements of the ice thickness with near basin‐wide coverage. Past studies have shown …

A facet-based numerical model for simulating SAR altimeter echoes from heterogeneous sea ice surfaces

JC Landy, M Tsamados… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Cryosat-2 has provided measurements of pan-Arctic sea ice thickness since 2010 with
unprecedented spatial coverage and frequency. However, it remains uncertain how the Ku …

A comparison of three surface roughness characterization techniques: photogrammetry, pin profiler, and smartphone-based LiDAR

Z Alijani, J Meloche, A McLaren, J Lindsay… - … Journal of Digital …, 2022 - Taylor & Francis
Surface roughness plays an important role in microwave remote sensing. In the agricultural
domain, surface roughness is crucial for soil moisture retrieval methods that use …

Airborne investigation of quasi-specular Ku-band radar scattering for satellite altimetry over snow-covered Arctic sea ice

C de Rijke-Thomas, J Landy, R Mallett… - … on Geoscience and …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Surface-based Ku-band radar altimetry investigations indicate that the radar signal is
typically backscattered from well above the snow–sea ice interface. However, this would …

Resolving fine-scale surface features on polar sea ice: A first assessment of UAS photogrammetry without ground control

T Li, B Zhang, X Cheng, MJ Westoby, Z Li, C Ma, F Hui… - Remote Sensing, 2019 - mdpi.com
Mapping landfast sea ice at a fine spatial scale is not only meaningful for geophysical study,
but is also of benefit for providing information about human activities upon it. The …

Characterizing winter landfast sea-ice surface roughness in the Canadian Arctic Archipelago using Sentinel-1 synthetic aperture radar and the Multi-angle Imaging …

RA Segal, RK Scharien, S Cafarella… - Annals of …, 2020 - cambridge.org
Two satellite datasets are used to characterize winter landfast first-year sea-ice (FYI),
deformed FYI (DFYI) and multiyear sea-ice (MYI) roughness in the Canadian Arctic …

Towards the Estimation of Oil Slick Thickness on Newly Formed Sea Ice using C-Band Radar Backscatter

E Asihene, AS Komarov, G Stern… - … on Geoscience and …, 2024 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Oil thickness in oil spills involving sea ice is a key parameter required for an effective oil spill
response; however, quantifying it from radar backscatter data remains a difficult task. We …

Toward the detection of oil spills in newly formed sea ice using C-band multipolarization radar

E Asihene, DS Desmond, ML Harasyn… - … on Geoscience and …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Oil spills in the Arctic are becoming more likely as shipping traffic increases in response to
climate-related sea ice loss. To improve oil spill detection capability, we used a controlled …

Observations of thin first year sea ice using a suite of surface radar, LiDAR, and drone sensors

D Isleifson, ML Harasyn, D Landry, D Babb… - Canadian Journal of …, 2023 - Taylor & Francis
Arctic sea ice is rapidly transitioning into a perennial first year ice pack and this is being
observed with satellite remote sensing. Satellite image interpretation requires accurate …