By TomLav |
![overlap of two satellite swaths in the Arctic Ocean](/sites/cimr.eu/files/styles/large/public/field/image/cimr_drift_s2s.png?itok=0pQ05Pm4)
A new paper was published at EGU The Cryosphere concerning the CIMR mission.
The paper uses JAXA AMSR2 data to demonstrate how a Level-2 NRT sea-ice drift product would look like for CIMR. HIstorically, brightness temperature data have been put together into daily maps before sea-ice drift maps were computed (Level-3 approach). In this new paper, we demonstrate the benefits of moving to a Level-2 approach (drift vectors computed from swath to swath). We obtain many more motion vectors with the Level-2 approach, and they are more accurate when compared against buoy data.
The paper is Open Access here: https://tc.copernicus.org/articles/15/3681/2021/tc-15-3681-2021.html
See also the list of all publications about the CIMR mission here.