Sea ice drift data for Fram Strait derived from a feature-tracking algorithm applied on Sentinel-1 SAR imagery

Stefan Muckenhuber; Stein Sandven

doi:10.1016/j.dib.2018.04.034

Sea ice drift data for Fram Strait derived from a feature-tracking algorithm applied on Sentinel-1 SAR imagery

Data Brief. 2018 Apr 19:18:1410-1415. doi: 10.1016/j.dib.2018.04.034. eCollection 2018 Jun.

Authors

Stefan Muckenhuber¹, Stein Sandven¹

Affiliation

¹ Nansen Environmental and Remote Sensing Center (NERSC), Thormøhlensgate 47, 5006 Bergen, Norway.

Abstract

1541 Sentinel-1 SAR images, acquired over Fram Strait between 2014 and 2016, were considered for sea ice drift retrieval using an open-source feature tracking algorithm. Based on this SAR image data set, 2026 and 3120 image pairs in HH and HV polarisation were used to calculate monthly mean sea ice velocities at 79 N.