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Carlsen, Tim; Birnbaum, Gerit; Ehrlich, André; Helm, Veit; Jäkel, Evelyn; Schäfer, Michael; Wendisch, Manfred (2020): Hemispherical-directional reflectance factor (HDRF) of snow surfaces retrieved from airborne camera measurements in Antarctica during austral summer in 2013/14 (links to files) [dataset]. PANGAEA, https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.920231, In: Carlsen, T et al. (2020): Hemispherical-directional reflectance factor (HDRF) of snow surfaces retrieved from airborne camera measurements in Antarctica during austral summer in 2013/14 [dataset publication series]. PANGAEA, https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.921707

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Abstract:
The hemispherical-directional reflectance function (HDRF) of snow surfaces was measured in Antarctica during austral summer in 2013/14. The HDRF was retrieved from airborne measurements using a digital 180° fish-eye camera onboard the research aircraft Polar 6 operated by the Alfred Wegener Institute, Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research (AWI), Bremerhaven, Germany.
The dataset contains the weighting functions for isotropic (f_iso), volumetric (f_vol), and geometric (f_geo) scattering obtained by inverting the kernel-driven, semi-empirical Ross-Thick-Li-Sparse-Reciprocal model for the bidirectional reflectance distribution function (BRDF). Along with the weighting functions f_iso, f_vol, and f_geo, the weights of determination (WoD) and root-mean-square errors (RMSE) are given as a criterion for the quality of the inversion for all 3 camera channels (Red: 602 nm central wavelength, Greeen: 538 nm, Blue: 470 nm). In addition, the footprint size of the camera observations is stated.
The snow HDRF was measured over a variety of different solar zenith angles, optical-equivalent snow grain sizes, and surface roughness, which are given as parameters within the dataset. The optical-equivalent snow grain size was retrieved from spectral surface albedo measurements with the Spectral Modular Airborne Radiation measurement sysTem (SMART) mounted on Polar 6 using observations at 1280 and 1100 nm wavelength. The surface roughness was measured using the airborne laser scanner RIEGL VQ580 on Polar 6.
Averaging was performed over time intervals of 30 s. The number of camera pictures, SSA measurements and laser scanner observations used for averaging over each 30s-interval are given.
The dataset further includes basic flight parameters such as the second of day, longitude, latitude, flight altitude, surface elevation, aircraft velocity, and an attitude flag (0 = okay, 1 = do not use) corresponding to the times of measurement.
Use of these data requires prior OK from the PIs.
Keyword(s):
anisotropy; BRDF; camera observations; HDRF; reflectance; remote sensing; snow; snow grain size; snow surface roughness
Related to:
Carlsen, Tim; Birnbaum, Gerit; Ehrlich, André; Helm, Veit; Jäkel, Evelyn; Schäfer, Michael; Wendisch, Manfred (2020): Parameterizing anisotropic reflectance of snow surfaces from airborne digital camera observations in Antarctica. The Cryosphere, 14(11), 3959-3978, https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-14-3959-2020
Funding:
German Research Foundation (DFG), grant/award no. 5472008: Priority Programme 1158 Antarctic Research with Comparable Investigations in Arctic Sea Ice Areas
Coverage:
Median Latitude: -74.665163 * Median Longitude: -1.727830 * South-bound Latitude: -75.600780 * West-bound Longitude: -26.205910 * North-bound Latitude: -70.671350 * East-bound Longitude: 0.062000
Date/Time Start: 2013-12-27T00:00:00 * Date/Time End: 2014-01-05T00:00:00
Event(s):
ANT_1312272702 * Latitude Start: -75.000970 * Longitude Start: 0.061840 * Latitude End: -75.000960 * Longitude End: 0.061820 * Date/Time Start: 2013-12-27T11:01:00 * Date/Time End: 2013-12-27T17:25:00 * Campaign: ANT_2013/14 (P6_189_ANTR_2013_2014, VELMAP_2013, FIL2013) * Basis: POLAR 6 * Method/Device: Aircraft (AC)
ANT_1312282802 * Latitude Start: -75.000970 * Longitude Start: 0.061830 * Latitude End: -75.000950 * Longitude End: 0.061840 * Date/Time Start: 2013-12-28T08:22:00 * Date/Time End: 2013-12-28T10:00:00 * Campaign: ANT_2013/14 (P6_189_ANTR_2013_2014, VELMAP_2013, FIL2013) * Basis: POLAR 6 * Method/Device: Aircraft (AC)
ANT_1312282902 * Latitude Start: -75.000950 * Longitude Start: 0.061820 * Latitude End: -75.000960 * Longitude End: 0.061920 * Date/Time Start: 2013-12-28T10:41:00 * Date/Time End: 2013-12-28T12:11:00 * Campaign: ANT_2013/14 (P6_189_ANTR_2013_2014, VELMAP_2013, FIL2013) * Basis: POLAR 6 * Method/Device: Aircraft (AC)
Parameter(s):
#NameShort NameUnitPrincipal InvestigatorMethod/DeviceComment
1Event labelEventCarlsen, Tim
2DATE/TIMEDate/TimeCarlsen, TimGeocode
3File nameFile nameCarlsen, Tim
4File formatFile formatCarlsen, Tim
5File sizeFile sizekByteCarlsen, Tim
6Uniform resource locator/link to fileURL fileCarlsen, Tim
Size:
48 data points

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