Abstract: There are thousands of shallow lakes on the North Slope of Alaska. They are one of the most obvious manifestations of the hydrological system at work, and they play an important role in physical, biological and biogeochemical processes in the tundra environment. The depth of the lakes is a key determinant of these processes, yet few bathymetric data are available. The authors conducted a pilot study to investigate the ability of interferometric synthetic aperture radar (INSAR) to derive bathymetry of the shallow lakes on the Alaskan North Slope...
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Topics: 
Remote sensing
Oceanography
Geomorphology