Airborne scanning LiDAR of sea ice during SIPEX in 2007

This data set is the airborne scanning LiDAR of a suite of different instruments deployed during the Sea Ice Physics and Ecosystems eXperiment (SIPEX) in 2007. Surveys have been flown over sea ice between 110-130

degrees E as part of the Australian Antarctic science project 2901.


Public Summary for project 2901

This research will contribute to a large multi-disciplinary study of the physics and biology of the Antarctic sea ice zone in early Spring 2007. The physical characteristics of the sea ice will be directly measured using satellite-tracked drifting buoys, ice core analysis and drilled measurements, with detailed measurements of snow cover thickness and properties. Aircraft-based instrumentation will be used to expand our survey area beyond the ship's track and for remote sampling. The data collected will provide valuable ground-truthing for existing and future satellite missions and improve our understanding of the role of sea ice in the climate system.


Project objectives:

(i) to quantify the spatial variability in sea ice and snow cover properties over scales of metres to hundreds of kilometres in the region of 110-130 degrees E, in order to improve the accuracy of sea ice thickness estimates from satellite altimetry and polarimetric synthetic aperture radar (SAR) data.

(ii) To determine the drift characteristics, and internal stress, of sea ice in the region 110-130 degrees E.

(iii) To investigate the relationships between the physical sea ice environment and the structure of Southern Ocean ecosystems (joint with AAS Proposal 2767).

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Identification info

Alternate title
Airborne scanning LiDAR of sea ice during SIPEX in 2007
Date (Publication)
2015-03-17
Edition
1
Citation identifier
Dataset DOI

Title
Information and documentation - Digital object identifier system
Date (Publication)
2012-04-23
Citation identifier
ISO 26324:2012

Citation identifier
doi:10.4225/15/55077FE8DB43F

Originator

Lieser, J.L., Worby, A.P. and Steer, A.

Publisher

Australian Antarctic Data Centre

Principal investigator

LIESER, JAN
ACE CRC
Private Bag 80
Hobart
Tasmania
7001
Australia

Principal investigator

WORBY, ANTHONY PETER
University of Tasmania
Private Bag 80
Hobart
Tasmania
7001
Australia

Principal investigator

STEER, ADAM
ACE CRC
Private Bag 80
Hobart
Tasmania
7001
Australia

Collaborator

LIESER, JAN
ACE CRC
Private Bag 80
Hobart
Tasmania
7001
Australia

Collaborator

WORBY, ANTHONY PETER
University of Tasmania
Private Bag 80
Hobart
Tasmania
7001
Australia

Collaborator

STEER, ADAM
ACE CRC
Private Bag 80
Hobart
Tasmania
7001
Australia
Name
CAASM Metadata
Website
https://data.aad.gov.au/metadata/records/SIPEX_LiDAR_sea_ice

Status
Completed

Custodian

AU/AADC > Australian Antarctic Data Centre, Australia - AADC, DATA OFFICER (DATA CENTER CONTACT)
Australian Antarctic Division
203 Channel Highway
Kingston
Tasmania
7050
Australia
Topic category
  • Oceans

Extent

N
S
E
W


Extent

Description
Temporal Coverage

Temporal extent

TimePeriod
2007-09-12 2007-10-08
Title
Regional-scale sea-ice and snow thickness distributions from in situ and satellite measurements over East Antarctica during SIPEX 2007.
Date (Publication)
2011
Citation identifier
58

Author

Worby, A.P. et al.
Name
Deep Sea Research Part II: Topical Studies in Oceanography
Issue identification
9-10
Page
1125-1136
Website
http://linkinghub.elsevier.com/retrieve/pii/S0967064510003577

Title
Remote sensing of Antarctic sea ice thickness applying airborne laser scanner.
Date (Publication)
2008
Citation identifier
10

Author

Lieser, J.L., Worby, A.P. and Yi, D.
Name
Geophysical Research Abstracts
NASA/GCMD Earth Science Keywords
  • EARTH SCIENCE > CRYOSPHERE > SEA ICE > ICE DEPTH/THICKNESS
  • EARTH SCIENCE > OCEANS > SEA ICE > ICE DEPTH/THICKNESS
Keywords
  • LiDAR
  • SIPEX
  • Sea Ice Thickness
NASA/GCMD Earth Science Keywords
  • LIDAR > Light Detection and Ranging
  • AIRBORNE LASER SCANNER
NASA/GCMD Earth Science Keywords
  • Aircraft
  • HELICOPTER
  • SHIPS
  • R/V AA > R/V Aurora Australis
NASA/GCMD Earth Science Keywords
  • AMD
  • AMD/AU
  • CEOS
  • ACE/CRC
NASA/GCMD Earth Science Keywords
  • CONTINENT > ANTARCTICA
  • OCEAN > SOUTHERN OCEAN
  • GEOGRAPHIC REGION > POLAR

Resource constraints

Use limitation
This metadata record is publicly available.

Resource constraints

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licence
Other constraints
These data are publicly available, but owing to their size are stored offline. To access them, make a request at the provided URL.

Resource constraints

File type
Portable Network Graphic
Linkage
Creative Commons by Attribution logo

Title
Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)
Website
https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode

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Use constraints
licence
Other constraints
This data set conforms to the CCBY Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). Please follow instructions listed in the citation reference provided at http://data.aad.gov.au/aadc/metadata/citation.cfm?entry_id=SIPEX_LiDAR_sea_ice when using these data.
Language
English
Character encoding
UTF8

Distribution Information

Distributor

Distributor

AU/AADC > Australian Antarctic Data Centre, Australia - AADC, DATA OFFICER (DATA CENTER CONTACT)
Australian Antarctic Division
203 Channel Highway
Kingston
Tasmania
7050
Australia

Distributor

Fees
Free
Planned available datetime
2015-03-17T00:00:00
Units of distribution
GB
Transfer size
8.3
Distribution format
  • binary

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Resource lineage

Statement
2007 was the first season of deployment for the LiDAR by the AAD. While the LiDAR appears to have been working normal, the combination with the INS/GPS was not always optimal. As the INS is critical for determining the orientation of the LiDAR in space, some surveys suffer from bad georeferencing, namely Bravo, Charlie, Echo, Foxtrot, Golf, Hotel, Victor, Whiskey, X-Ray and Yankee. Both INS and laser scanner datasets are in raw format. An included software program is available to read the INS data, but there is no accompanying program for the laser scanner data at this time.
Hierarchy level
Dataset
Maintenance and update frequency
As needed
Maintenance note
2015-03-17 - record created by Dave Connell from a template completed by Jan Lieser. 2017-12-13 - record updated by Dave Connell - basic updates.

Metadata

Metadata identifier
string/SIPEX_LiDAR_sea_ice

Language
English
Character encoding
UTF8

Author

CONNELL, DAVE J.
Australian Antarctic Division
203 Channel Highway
Kingston
Tasmania
7050
Australia

Sponsor

Australian Antarctic Division

Owner

AADC

Type of resource

Resource scope
Dataset

Alternative metadata reference

Title
gov.nasa.gsfc.gcmd
Citation identifier
bc7787bf-15bb-4730-91d7-e85233e5f97f

Alternative metadata reference

Title
gov.nasa.gsfc.gcmd
Date (Last Revision)
2015-11-30T07:49:18

Identifier

Description
metadata.extraction_date

Alternative metadata reference

Title
gov.nasa.gsfc.gcmd
Citation identifier
8.6

Metadata linkage
http://data.aad.gov.au/metadata/records/SIPEX_LiDAR_sea_ice

Point of truth for the metadata record

Date info (Creation)
2015-03-16T00:00:00
Date info (Last Update)
2017-12-13

Metadata standard

Title
ISO 19115-3
Edition
2014
Other citation details
Version 1
Title
DIF to ISO 19115-1 Profile
 
 

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