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CIRFA seminar 21 September: Observation of the Taylor Energy Oil Slick in the Gulf of Mexico using NASA’s UAVSAR L-band Airborne SAR Instrument
Date: Thursday 21 September, 13:30-14:30 - NB! New time! Venue: CIRFA, Forskningsparken 3, 3rd floor, Tromsø Observation of the Taylor Energy Oil Slick in the Gulf of Mexico using NASA’s UAVSAR…
Extended deadline: Tenure-Track Associate Professor in Earth Observation and Remote Sensing at CIRFA – apply by 19 September
We are looking for a talented candidate with great scientific potential, to strengthen and further develop the existing research at CIRFA and the Department of Physics and Technology. To support…
The Cryosphere: Sea ice local surface topography from single-pass satellite InSAR measurements: a feasibility study.
The article "Sea ice local surface topography from single-pass satellite InSAR measurements: a feasibility study" by Wolfgang Dierking, Oliver Lang and Thomas Busche has been published in the journal The…
CIRFA seminar 31 August: Iceberg detection and sea ice classification
CIRFA welcomes you to a seminar on the topics of iceberg detection and sea ice classification. Date: Thursday 31 August, 14h30-15h30 Venue: CIRFA, SIVA Innovation Centre (Forskningsparken), Tromsø [map] Presentations by…
New paper in JGR Oceans: Impact of data assimilation on Eulerian versus Lagrangian estimates of upper ocean transport
The paper "Impact of data assimilation on Eulerian versus Lagrangian estimates of upper ocean transport" by Ann Kristin Sperrevik, Johannes Röhrs and Kai Håkon Christensen at the Norwegian Meteorological Institute…
She is watching the ocean from space in the high North – Interview with Katalin Blix
Katalin Blix was interviewed earlier this spring in her local newspaper Hajdú-Bihari Napló in Hungary by the journalist Peter Egerhazi. Below is a summary of the interview: The former geologist…
Registration for CIRFA Annual Conference 2017
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CIRFA contributions at IGARSS2017
Exciting week for CIRFA where our members are presenting their work at the IGARSS2017 (IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium) in Fort Worth, Texas, US. First out is WP2 and…
New paper in JSTARS: Lake and Fjord Ice Imaging Using a Multifrequency Ground-Based Tomographic SAR System
The paper "Lake and Fjord Ice Imaging Using a Multifrequency Ground-Based Tomographic SAR System" by Temesgen Gebrie Yitayew, Laurent Ferro-Famil, Torbjørn Eltoft and Stefano Tebaldini has recently been published in IEEE…
Radio report: Drones over Spitzbergen
[caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="700"] Drone system testing in Ny-Ålesund. Photo: Pål Kvaløy, NTNU.[/caption] The radio programme "Wissenschafts-magazin" on Schweizer Radio und Fernsehen (SRF) has published a radio report about the…