Large scale air-borne sea ice thickness measurements

Data from ASAC project 3030.

Public summary for the project:
This project will measure the sea ice thickness off East Antarctica, over spatial scales up to hundreds of kilometers. Sea ice is a likely sensitive indicator of climate variations and change. No large scale sea ice thickness measurements exist in the Antarctic. An estimation of trends of change in Antarctic sea ice thickness and volume is therefore not currently possible. To address this deficiency and to provide an independent data set for the validation of models and the calibration of remote-sensing data, we will conduct high accuracy air borne laser scanner measurements in the sea ice zone off East Antarctica.

More information about the project can be found in lidar.pdf (which is available with the data).

本数据集源自ASAC项目3030号。
该项目公开摘要如下：
本项目将对南极东部近海区域的海冰厚度开展测量，空间覆盖范围可达数百公里。海冰是反映气候变化与气候变异的敏感指示器。目前南极地区尚无大规模海冰厚度实测数据，因此当前无法估算南极海冰厚度与体积的变化趋势。为填补这一研究空白，并为模型验证与遥感数据校准提供独立数据集，我们将在南极东部近海海冰区域开展高精度航空激光扫描仪（air borne laser scanner）测量作业。
更多项目详情可查阅随数据集一并提供的lidar.pdf文件。