1. http://www.icemon.org Monitoring of Sea Ice in the Arctic (ICEMON) Stein Sandven Research director Polar and Environmental Remote Sensing Group 20 October 2004

2. http://www.icemon.org 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,

3. http://www.icemon.org 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

4. http://www.icemon.org ICEMON: building a global ice service network Russia USA Norway Denmark Finland, Sweden, etc. Canada

5. http://www.icemon.org Monitoring ice concentration from microwave satellites 100% 90% 80% 70% 60% 50% 40% 30% 15% water land water land

6. http://www.icemon.org Less summer ice in the Arctic Pink line: average summer ice extent 1978-2003 Colour code: % deviation from the mean summer ice concentration Ref. NSIDC, 2004

7. http://www.icemon.org Scatterometer ice maps January 7, 2003 Ice types and ice drift Quikscat backscatter image Courtesey: R. Ezraty, IFREMER

8. http://www.icemon.org Ifremer ice drift from scatterometer: whole Arctic Courtesey: R. Ezraty, Ifremer Merged scatterometer and AMSR data Zoom in on Fram Strait

9. http://www.icemon.org High-resolution ice maps for Svalbard area

10. http://www.icemon.org Validation by helicopter video Area B: Open water, slush ice, nilas outside of fastice area Area D: FY ice, young ice,nilas

11. http://www.icemon.org 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

12. http://www.icemon.org SAR data for ice-navigation Russian nuclear icbreakers operation in the Kara Sea

13. http://www.icemon.org Ice thickness map in the Baltic Sea The map is based on SAR image analysis and in situ observations Courtesy: FIMR

14. http://www.icemon.org ASAR Global Mode coverage 1 day coverage 30/03/2004 3 day coverage 28/03/2004 to 30/03/2004 Courtesey: N. Walker, K. Partington, Vexcel UK

15. http://www.icemon.org ASAR Global Mode mosaic Composite of 5 orbits on 11 May 2004

16. http://www.icemon.org Icebergs

17. http://www.icemon.org Glaciers and iceberg calving ERS-1 SAR images from eastern Franz Josef Land 25 by 25 km Copyright: ESA 1992 100 by 100 km Vilcheka Island

18. http://www.icemon.org AVHRR imageMERIS imageSAR images Aircraft data Ship data Data integration

19. http://www.icemon.org AVHRR image MERIS imageSAR imagesAircraft dataShip data Zoomiing in on the Fram Strait

20. http://www.icemon.org Further work Continuation proposal for 2005 - 2008: POLAR VIEW Implementation phase of GMES Joint project between Europe and Canada Focus on monitoring the cryosphere in Arctic and Antarctic