Articles | Volume 14, issue 9
https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-14-3915-2022
https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-14-3915-2022
Data description paper
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01 Sep 2022
Data description paper |  | 01 Sep 2022

Airborne SnowSAR data at X and Ku bands over boreal forest, alpine and tundra snow cover

Juha Lemmetyinen, Juval Cohen, Anna Kontu, Juho Vehviläinen, Henna-Reetta Hannula, Ioanna Merkouriadi, Stefan Scheiblauer, Helmut Rott, Thomas Nagler, Elisabeth Ripper, Kelly Elder, Hans-Peter Marshall, Reinhard Fromm, Marc Adams, Chris Derksen, Joshua King, Adriano Meta, Alex Coccia, Nick Rutter, Melody Sandells, Giovanni Macelloni, Emanuele Santi, Marion Leduc-Leballeur, Richard Essery, Cecile Menard, and Michael Kern

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Coccia, A., Trampuz, C., and Imbembo, E.: Technical Assistance for the Development and Deployment of an X- and Ku- Band MiniSAR Airborne System, Final report, ESA Contract No.: 4000101697/10/NL/FF/ef, 4, 32, 2011. 
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Di Leo, D., Coccia, A., and Meta, A.: Analysis and comments on SnowSAR datasets. Technical Assistance for the Development and Deployment of an X- and Ku band MiniSAR Airborne System (SnowSAR), Final report, ESA Contract No.: 4000101697/10/NL/FF/ef. MS-EST-SNW-03-TCN-258, 2016. 
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The manuscript describes airborne, dual-polarised X and Ku band synthetic aperture radar (SAR) data collected over several campaigns over snow-covered terrain in Finland, Austria and Canada. Colocated snow and meteorological observations are also presented. The data are meant for science users interested in investigating X/Ku band radar signatures from natural environments in winter conditions.
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