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Description

This dataset contains images from the S-BAND marine navigation radar collected during the 2022 Salinity and Stratification at the Sea Ice Edge (SASSIE) campaign. SASSIE is a NASA experiment that aims to understand how salinity anomalies in the upper ocean generated by melting sea ice affect sea surface temperature (SST), stratification, and subsequent sea-ice growth. SASSIE involved a field campaign that sampled the transition from summer melt to autumn ice advance in the Beaufort Sea during August-October 2022, making intensive in situ and remote sensing observations within ~200km of the sea ice edge. Images from the radar were digitized and saved every 10-60 seconds on days that the R/V Wolstad was in or around ice. Images were then georeferenced based on range, heading, image orientation, and ship's GPS position. L4 images are available in GeoTIFF format and contain additional processing to classify pixels as sea ice, not sea ice, or not data.

Product Summary

Platforms
Ships
Instruments
RADAR
Spatial Extent

N: 75.5 S: 67.5 E: -138 W: -170.5

Location
BEAUFORT SEA
Coordinate System
GEODETIC
Granule Spatial Representation
CARTESIAN
Temporal Extent
2022-09-08 to 2022-09-30
Data Partner
Physical Oceanography Distributed Active Archive Center, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, NASA (NASA/JPL/PODAAC)
Concept ID
C2773232610-POCLOUD
Data State
COMPLETE
Number of Files/Granules
25026
Processing Level
4
Science Keywords
Sea Ice Concentration ,
Sea Ice Concentration ,
RADAR IMAGERY ,
RADAR

Citation

Citation is critically important for dataset documentation and discovery. This dataset is openly shared, without restriction, in accordance with the EOSDIS Data Use and Citation Guidance.

Copy Citation

Drushka, K. (2022). SASSIE Arctic Field Campaign Shipboard S-Band Radar Level 4 Data Fall 2022 [Data set]. NASA Physical Oceanography Distributed Active Archive Center. https://doi.org/10.5067/SASSIE-SBAND4 Date Accessed: 2026-05-02

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Classification of sea-ice concentration from ship-board S-band radar images using open-source machine learning tools Westbrook, Elizabeth, Gaube, Peter, Culhane, Emmett, Bingham, Frederick, Pacini, Astrid, Schmidgall, Carlyn, Schanze, Julian, Drushka, Kyla Sea Surface Temperature, Ocean Surface Salinity, SURFACE CONDUCTIVITY, Ocean Temperature, Salinity, Conductivity, Ocean Salinity, Sea Ice Concentration, Sea Ice Concentration, RADAR IMAGERY, RADAR
Salinity and Stratification at the Sea Ice Edge (SASSIE): an Drushka, Kyla, Westbrook, Elizabeth, Bingham, Frederick M., Gaube, Peter, Dickinson, Suzanne, Fournier, Severine, Menezes, Viviane, Misra, Sidharth, Perez Valentin, Jaynice, Rainville, Edwin J., Schanze, Julian J., Schmidgall, Carlyn, Shcherbina, Andrey, Steele, Michael, Thomson, Jim, Zippel, Seth OCEAN TEMPERATURE PROFILES, CONDUCTIVITY PROFILES, OCEAN SALINITY PROFILES, Salinity, Conductivity, CURRENT PROFILES, SURFACE SPEED, Ocean Surface Salinity, Brightness Temperature, Ocean Currents, Surface Winds, Air Temperature, Atmospheric Pressure Measurements, Sea Surface Temperature, SURFACE CONDUCTIVITY, Ocean Temperature, Ocean Salinity, Ocean Tracers, Density, Swells, Wind Waves, Surface Precipitation, Sea Surface Skin Temperature, Downwelling Shortwave Radiation, Upwelling Longwave Radiation, Downwelling Longwave Radiation, Humidity Indices, Surface Winds, Water Pressure, Sea Ice Concentration, Sea Ice Concentration, RADAR IMAGERY, RADAR, Surface Pressure, Wind Direction, Wind Speed
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