Bohai sea ice thickness estimation based on thermodynamic ice model and earth observation data

SAR data and its texture features are used to estimate the ice thickness over Liaodong Bay with ice model thickness. Sea ice and open water discrimination works well for dual-polarized data using a simple linear model. For ice thickness estimation the number of data points is too limited, but relatively good estimates can be extracted using the leave-one-out approach. The leave-one-out ice thickness estimation (N=31) accuracy is below: mean error is 5.8cm and RMSE is 7.1 cm.