The SIMMS'93 SAR polarimetry experiment: combined surface and airborne radar measurements for winter sea ice

Polarimetric SARs promise to be powerful tools for the measurement and investigation of the scattering properties of sea ice. Much of the research done to date is based on a single data set acquired in the western Arctic. This paper describes work done with a 1993 central Arctic data set and presents some results for first-year sea ice.