A multiscale subpixel mixture analysis applied for melt detection using passive microwave and radar scatterometer image time series of the Antarctic Peninsula (1999-2009)

de Freitas, Marcos W. D.; Mendes Junior, Claudio W.; Arigony-Neto, Jorge; Costi, Juliana; Simoes, Jefferson C.

Abstract

This paper reports a comparative analysis performed on a fraction-image time series of the Antarctic Peninsula from the period 1999-2009 generated by multiresolution remote-sensing images (SSM/I SSMI/S with 25 km and QuikSCAT with 2.225 km spatial resolutions) for snow-melt detection. Our method is based on the (a) preprocessing of multitemporal remote-sensing data, (b) subpixel mixture analysis of SSMI and QuikSCAT image time series, and (c) evaluation of subpixel analysis, including an assessment of fraction images of wet snow using an independent ASAR dataset and sensitivity analysis on the melt metrics measured by these images. The temporal dynamics of the melt indices derived from the wet-snow fraction images presented a more realistic pattern than the traditional melt metrics measured by Boolean snow-melt detection approaches. Because the snow melt actually occurs at the pixel fractions, the multiscale analysis that was performed suggests an overestimation of the melt metrics calculated using Boolean approaches (which assume that the entire area of the detected pixel shows snow melt). The melt metrics measurements show an overestimation according to the decrease in spatial resolution related to the multiplicative effect of a larger pixel area.

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Título de la Revista: ANNALS OF GLACIOLOGY
Volumen: 59
Número: 76
Editorial: CAMBRIDGE UNIV PRESS
Fecha de publicación: 2018
Página de inicio: 16
Página final: 28
DOI:

10.1017/aog.2017.44

Notas: ISI