SCALE-WIN22 cruise track, stations, sea-ice edge, and SAR images on Google Earth

This Google Earth KMZ file contains the cruise track of the SCALE-WIN22 expedition, the description of activities on each station, the daily ice-edge location, and the quick-view SAR images. This is an interactive description of the cruise report:

Vichi, M. (2023). SCALE-WIN22 Cruise Report. Zenodo. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7901529

The layers are separated in single folders that can be activated or deactivated. All data have a time stamp and a time span. By moving the time slider on the upper left (and adjusting the time interval), it is possible to follow the ship and display the corresponding SAR images and sea-ice edge. All the images are displayed for a time duration of one day. The exact time and name of the image is found in the object description.

Legend:

White line: ship track

Red pin: station (with the main activities: refer to the report for more informations)

Yellow pin: ship location at the time of the COSMO-SkyMed image

Green pin:  ship location at the time of the Terrasar-X image

Red thick line: sea-ice edge from AMSR2 (green shading is the uncertainty)

Quick-view SAR images are courtesy of DLR and ASI. Sea-ice edge location was produced by SAWS.

The code to generate the KML file is available on github: https://github.com/mvichi/SCALE