Speaking: Christopher Jackson and Frank Monaldo, NOAA NESDIS STAR
Part of the NOAA in Alaska and the Arctic seminar series hosted by NOAA NCEI Regional Climate Services Director, Alaska Region.
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Abstract
Synthetic aperture radar has been providing information about Arctic Sea ice for more than 30 years. The current set of C-Band SAR systems (Radarsat-2, Sentinel-1 and Radarsat Constellation Mission) provide near complete coverage of the Arctic every few days at a resolution < 100 m. This presentation will discuss these SAR systems and how their data are being used at NOAA NESDIS STAR to create sea ice products (coverage, drift motion) to support various operational organizations.
Bio
Christopher Jackson is currently a consultant scientist with the Synthetic Aperture Radar group in the Satellite Oceanography and Climate Division (SOCD) where he works to develop products for various NOAA customers based on SAR imagery. He received his M.S. in applied physics from George Mason University in 1998. For the last 30 years he has conducted research into the use of synthetic aperture radar and optical sunglint imagery to study a variety of ocean related phenomena including sea surface winds, nonlinear internal waves, and sea ice. He served as the Editor for the Synthetic Aperture Radar Marine Users Manual (published by NOAA in 2004).