Seasonal snow cover is the largest single component of the cryosphere in areal extent,
covering an average of 46 million square km of Earth's surface (31% of the land area) each …

Cold regions affect global, regional and local climate; oftentimes they are relevant for water
supply, host valuable ecosystems, and support human livelihood. They are thus eminently …

Within the framework of European Space Agency (ESA) activities, several campaigns were
carried out in the last decade with the purpose of exploiting the capabilities of multifrequency …

Satellite-based snow-cover monitoring is performed using optical, synthetic aperture radar
(SAR), and passivemicrowave sensors. Effects of forest canopy on the observed signal need …

An uncalibrated distributed multiphysics snow model driven by downscaled weather
forecasts (30-m, 15-min) was implemented as a Radar Observing System Simulator (ROSS) …

As a future satellite mission concept, active microwave sensors have the potential to
measure snow water equivalent (SWE) with advantages including finer spatial resolution …

A method for the retrieval of soil freeze/thaw (F/T) state in the boreal forest region using SAR
is presented in this paper. The method utilizes Sentinel-1 data and is thus suitable for …

Synthetic aperture radar (SAR) enables the mapping of flooding over large areas,
regardless of cloud and weather conditions. Simplified classification approaches based on …

Satellite instruments operating at microwave frequencies enable the monitoring of soil
freeze/thaw (F/T) state of large areas. In this study, seasonal variations in space-borne SAR …

Abstract The European Space Agency SnowSAR instrument is a side-looking, dual-
polarised (VV/VH), X/Ku band synthetic aperture radar (SAR), operable from various sizes of …