Principal Investigator:Drouin, Hugo Licensed Year(s):
2020
2019 Summary:
This licence has been issued for the scientific research application No.4648.
This project aims to evaluate and develop the utility of Canada’s future RADARSAT Constellation Mission (RCM) (launch June 2019) for the monitoring of lake ice breakup and freeze-up. RCM-type radar images will be simulated using data from Canada’s current radar satellite – that is - RADARSAT-2. Validation data in the ...
Principal Investigator:English, Michael C Licensed Year(s):
2012
2010200920082007200620052004 Summary:
This research project has two primary scientific goals which include:
1) Relating ground truthed snowpack data to passive microwave data obtained from satellites through the winter months. This will assist in formulating a empirical relationship between the two datasets which is necessary to improve satellite monitoring of snow water equivalent.
2) Determining the relative importance of snowmel...