Real-Time Pack Ice Monitoring Systems - Identification of Hazardous Sea Ice Using Upward Looking Sonars for Tactical Support of Offshore Oil and Gas Projects

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Ice island variability in polarimetric Synthetic Aperture Radar: An exploratory analysis to improve detection and ice classification

“…Other countermeasure ideas include skirting infrastructure with sloping shields to induce fracturing of ice islands, creating ice rubble barriers artificially to absorb impact, and pumping seawater onto the surface of ice islands, to accelerate melt at structural weakpoints (Sackinger et al, 1991). Very few of these concepts have been tested and, regardless, a complete ice management strategy must include an early warning mechanism such as detection of hazards with remote sensing (Fissel et al, 2011).…”