2016 Fiscal Year Final Research Report
Study on environmental monitoring of Arctic tundra lakes by using radar data
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26340014
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| Research Category |
Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
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| Allocation Type | Multi-year Fund |
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| Section | 一般 |
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| Research Field |
Environmental dynamic analysis
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| Research Institution | Nihon University |
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Principal Investigator |
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| Project Period (FY) |
2014-04-01 – 2017-03-31
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| Keywords | 合成開口レーダ / 北極域 / 環境計測 |
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| Outline of Final Research Achievements |
The final goal of this research is to evaluate an effect of climate change into Arctic land area. In this research, we investigated a method to monitor freezing and thawing of tundra lakes (thermokarst lakes) in Arctic region by using C-band and L-band synthetic aperture radar (SAR) data. And then, we evaluated the effect of climate change into Arctic land area. We investigated the time series of C-band and L-band backscattering coefficients of tundra lakes located in northern Alaska by using the SAR data archived during more than 20 years. The effect of climate change was evaluated by extracting the ice growing speed and the freezing /thawing time changes. We also investigated the possibilities of currently available SAR data for the use of this research.
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| Free Research Field |
マイクロ波リモートセンシング
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