title: Validation of Remote Sensing Retrieval Products using Data from a Wireless Sensor-Based Online Monitoring in Antarctica.
abstract: Of the modern technologies in polar-region monitoring, the remote sensing technology that can instantaneously form large-scale images has become much more important in helping acquire parameters such as the freezing and melting of ice as well as the surface temperature, which can be used in the research of global climate change, Antarctic ice sheet responses, and cap formation and evolution. However, the acquirement of those parameters is impacted remarkably by the climate and satellite transit time which makes it almost impossible to have timely and continuous observation data. In this research, a wireless sensor-based online monitoring platform (WSOOP) for the extreme polar environment is applied to obtain a long-term series of data which is site-specific and continuous in time. Those data are compared and validated with the data from a weather station at Zhongshan Station Antarctica and the result shows an obvious correlation. Then those data are used to validate the remote sensing products of the freezing and melting of ice and the surface temperature and the result also indicated a similar correlation. The experiment in Antarctica has proven that WSOOP is an effective system to validate remotely sensed data in the polar region.
authors.affiliation: College of Global Change and Earth System Science, Beijing Normal University, No. 19, Xin Jie Kou Wai Street, Beijing 100875, China. lixh@bnu.edu.cn.|Joint Center for Global Change Studies, Beijing 100875, China. lixh@bnu.edu.cn.
authors.forename: Xiuhong
authors.initials: X
authors.lastname: Li
authors.affiliation: College of Global Change and Earth System Science, Beijing Normal University, No. 19, Xin Jie Kou Wai Street, Beijing 100875, China. xcheng@bnu.edu.cn.|Joint Center for Global Change Studies, Beijing 100875, China. xcheng@bnu.edu.cn.
authors.forename: Xiao
authors.initials: X
authors.lastname: Cheng
authors.affiliation: State Key Laboratory of Environmental Criteria and Risk Assessment, Chinese Research Academy of Environmental Sciences, No. 8, Da Yang Fang, An Wai, Chao Yang, Beijing 100012, China. yangrj@craes.org.cn.
authors.forename: Rongjin
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authors.lastname: Yang
authors.affiliation: College of Global Change and Earth System Science, Beijing Normal University, No. 19, Xin Jie Kou Wai Street, Beijing 100875, China. toliuqiang@bnu.edu.cn.|Joint Center for Global Change Studies, Beijing 100875, China. toliuqiang@bnu.edu.cn.
authors.forename: Qiang
authors.initials: Q
authors.lastname: Liu
authors.affiliation: Institute of Remote Sensing and Digital Earth of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100101, China. qiuyb@radi.ac.cn.
authors.forename: Yubao
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Qiu
authors.affiliation: College of Global Change and Earth System Science, Beijing Normal University, No. 19, Xin Jie Kou Wai Street, Beijing 100875, China. 201221490009@mail.bnu.edu.cn.
authors.forename: Jialin
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Zhang
authors.affiliation: College of Global Change and Earth System Science, Beijing Normal University, No. 19, Xin Jie Kou Wai Street, Beijing 100875, China. 201421490024@mail.bnu.edu.cn.
authors.forename: Erli
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Cai
authors.affiliation: College of Global Change and Earth System Science, Beijing Normal University, No. 19, Xin Jie Kou Wai Street, Beijing 100875, China. zhaolong@mail.bnu.edu.cn.
authors.forename: Long
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Zhao
keywords: Antarctica; remote sensing product; validation; wireless sensor based online monitoring platform