CIRFA seminar (2 November): Laust Færch and Henrik Fisser – Satellite Remote Sensing of Arctic Icebergs

Our PhD students Laust Færch and Henrik Fisser will share the stage and talk about their ongoing work with the detection of icebergs by SAR and optical satellite images. Icebergs…

CIRFA seminar (19 October): Øyvind Lundesgård – Sea ice draft from ULS moornings

Øyvind Lundesgård, Norwegian Polar Institute will talk about Sea ice draft in the northern Barents Sea: Multi-year local observations in a large-scale context Sea ice thickness remains a crucial but elusive…

CIRFA seminar (5 October): Qiang Wang – Ice Mappging with Deep Learning

Qiang Wang, UiT The Arctic University of Norway will talk about Pixel-wise sea ice mapping with deep learning. Sentinel-1 HH,HV backscatter coefficient in (a) and (b) as well as our inference…

CIRFA seminar (7 September): Victor de Aguiar – Oil slicks

Title: Forecasting surface oil slicks and drifter trajectories Summary: Operational oceanography is one of the backbones of environmental preparedness planning and emergency response, e.g. Search-and-Rescue missions, oil spill monitoring and marine pollution…

CIRFA seminar (14 June): Physically-based approaches in deep learning

This time we invited Giampaolo Ferraioli, Associate Professor with Università degli Studi di Napoli Parthenope, Italy, to share with us his experience with non-Polar-related SAR and machine learning applications. Synthetic…

CIRFA seminar (25 May) – Overview of upcoming NISAR mission

We welcome Dr. Cathleen E. Jones for this week's seminar. She will talk about the upcoming NISAR mission. Dr. Cathleen E. Jones is the Applications Lead for the NISAR Science…

CIRFA seminar (11 May): Removing speckle in SAR images

Welcome to a seminar by Loic Denis from Université Jean Monnet, Saint-Etienne, France with the title: Removing speckle in SAR images while maintaining spatial resolution: from classical image processing techniques…

CIRFA seminar (4 May): Sea ice dynamics from sparse buoy data

In this seminar Nikolas Olson Aksamit, Associate Professor in Applied Math and Earth Systems Analysis at UiT, will talk about a new approach to study sea ice defromation from drifters:…

CIRFA seminar (13 April) – From sea ice to coastal erosion in Svalbard

In our next seminar on 13 April at 14:00 our guest at CIRFA, Zuzanna Świrad from Institute of Geophysics, Polish Academy of Sciences, will present her latest work on coastal…

CIRFA seminar (16 March) – Arctic Sea Ice Thickness and Snow Depth

Shiming Xu from Department of Earth System Science, Tsinghua University, China is visiting CIRFA and will present a seminar with the title: 'Satellite Retrieval of Arctic Sea Ice Thickness and…