Laboratory for Remote Sensing and Geoinformatics 　 Directed by  Dr. Hongjie Xie , Assistant Professor

Antarctic Research

Projects

1. Study of Antarctic sea ice and its relation with globe climate change using ICEsat and other satellites (pdf) (Burcu Cicek)

2. Using AMSR-E and MODIS to study the snow, ice concentration, ice extent of Antarctic sea ice zone (Mike Lewis)

3. Sea Ice Mass Balance in the Antarctic - SIMBA Drift Station supported by NSF Office of Polar Programs ($595,000) for the period 09/2006-08/2010. Professor Steve Ackley is the PI. More details about this project and field trip to Antarctic in September to October 2007 can be found from here).

            A scientific expedition to Antarctic (December 8-30, 2006) conduced to examine the sea ice and its variability, which will be used to validate the Satellite-derived geophysical products on sea ice. Here is a list of participants.

            UTSA on NSF media release:  Multinational scientific expedition kicks off International Polar Year. A series of photos based on events and/or time is available for reviewing. More photos about the expedition on Polartrec.com.

            Other media releases about the trip and our researches: Turkish Daily News, San Antonio Express News, EurekAlert, UTSA Today, IPY overview of the National Academy of Sciences, UTSA Sombrilla, Imaging NOTES magazine.

December 27, 2006 (UTC), ODEN arrived fast ice (first year) at the McMurdo Sound of the Rose Sea

December 25, 2006, ship crew, scientist and teacher teams from Sweden, Chile, and U.S.

on the heli-deck of ODEN. Back is an iceberg just passed by the ODEN.