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Radar

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The dark area in the right part of the image is the sea. The rest of the image is covered by glaciers. Rough surfaces of crevasses scatter a lot of energy back to the sensor.

Credits: JAXA

Glacier analysis using radar imagery

Introduction

Background

Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR)

Exercises

Worksheet introduction Exercise 1: Multitemporal radar and multispectral optical data Exercise 2: The influence of weather conditions on radar imagery Conclusions

Eduspace - Software

LEOWorks 4 (MacOS)LEOWorks 4 (Windows)LEOWorks 4 (Linux)

Eduspace - Download

Images_Glaciers.zip GoogleEarth file