Monitoring of Sea Ice in the Arctic (ICEMON) Stein Sandven Research director Polar and Environmental Remote Sensing Group 20 October 2004
ICEMON objectives Develop operational monitoring and forcasting in sea ice areas to support marine operation safety environmental protection and risk analysis resource exploration and exploitation climate monitoring and research,
Consortium Core User Group: Finnish Maritime Administration (FMA) Rossby Centre - Swedish Met. and Hydrological Institute (RC) Det Norske Veritas (DNV) Norwegian Polar Institute (NPI) Operational Service providers: Norwegian Meteorological Institute (met.no) Kongsberg Satellite Systems (KSAT) Finnish Institute of Marine Research (FIMR) Ifremer Marine Forecasting Centre - Swedish Met. and Hydrological Institute Canadian Ice Service (CIS) System Developers: Technical Research Centre of Finland (VTT) Kongsberg Spacetec (KSPT) Vexcel UK (Vexcel) Research partners: Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research (AWI) University College London, CPOM (UCL) Nansen Environmental and Remote Sensing Centre (NERSC) Cost Benefit Analysis: ControlWare New partners in 2004: Max Planck Insitute for Meteorology, University of Bremen, Helsinki University of Technology, Danish Meteorological Institute
ICEMON: building a global ice service network Russia USA Norway Denmark Finland, Sweden, etc. Canada
Monitoring ice concentration from microwave satellites 100% 90% 80% 70% 60% 50% 40% 30% 15% water land water land
Less summer ice in the Arctic Pink line: average summer ice extent Colour code: % deviation from the mean summer ice concentration Ref. NSIDC, 2004
Scatterometer ice maps January 7, 2003 Ice types and ice drift Quikscat backscatter image Courtesey: R. Ezraty, IFREMER
Ifremer ice drift from scatterometer: whole Arctic Courtesey: R. Ezraty, Ifremer Merged scatterometer and AMSR data Zoom in on Fram Strait
High-resolution ice maps for Svalbard area
Validation by helicopter video Area B: Open water, slush ice, nilas outside of fastice area Area D: FY ice, young ice,nilas
Ice area flux in the Fram Strait AVHRR image coverage outside the SAR area SSM/I ice concentration Open water Area covered by SAR image
SAR data for ice-navigation Russian nuclear icbreakers operation in the Kara Sea
Ice thickness map in the Baltic Sea The map is based on SAR image analysis and in situ observations Courtesy: FIMR
ASAR Global Mode coverage 1 day coverage 30/03/ day coverage 28/03/2004 to 30/03/2004 Courtesey: N. Walker, K. Partington, Vexcel UK
ASAR Global Mode mosaic Composite of 5 orbits on 11 May 2004
Icebergs
Glaciers and iceberg calving ERS-1 SAR images from eastern Franz Josef Land 25 by 25 km Copyright: ESA by 100 km Vilcheka Island
AVHRR imageMERIS imageSAR images Aircraft data Ship data Data integration
AVHRR image MERIS imageSAR imagesAircraft dataShip data Zoomiing in on the Fram Strait
Further work Continuation proposal for : POLAR VIEW Implementation phase of GMES Joint project between Europe and Canada Focus on monitoring the cryosphere in Arctic and Antarctic