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This month the CIRFA Consortium Agreement has been signed by all partners. Under the leadership of UiT the Arctic University of Norway, 18 partners from universities, research organisations and industry,…

Radar remote sensing  About the course:  FYS8810 “Radar remote sensing” (PhD level, but also appropriate for MSc-students, 10 ECTs for registered) The course will give the theoretical foundations of  important…

Dear CIRFA-partners, colleagues, and collaborators, The year 2015 is approaching the end, and it is time to summarize and give a brief status report. CIRFA started up on September 1st, 2015,…

CIRFA and the Earth Observation (EO) group at UiT were present at the 2. PI-workshop for the Japanese ALOS-2 satellite, which took place in the Akihabara Convention Centre from November…

The two illustrations below, processed by UiT PhD fellow Jakob Grahn, are from Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) taken over sea ice in the Arctic Ocean. The images were selected as Image of…

  The official grand and long awaited opening of CIRFA took place on Friday 13th, November 2015 at UiT – The Arctic University of Norway. On the agenda were tapas,…

Developing analytic tools that give rapid and exact information about ice conditions in Arctic areas. Physicist Mari-Ann Moen has been developing new methods that can be used for mapping and characterization…

The official opening event for CIRFA - Centre for Integrated Remote Sensing and Forecasting for Arctic Operations  13 November 2015 at 13:00 UiT The Arctic University of Norway, Teknologibygget, Hansine Hansens vei…

CIRFA kick-off meeting will take place at UiT The Arctic University of Norway, on Monday 30 November and Tuesday 1 December. Amongst others the kick-off meeting will discuss the overall project and collaboration…

Guest lecture at CIRFA and the Department of Physics and Technology, UiT, Friday 6 November, 14:15, auditorium 2.017 in the Technology building. “The role of clouds on the surface energy balance…