This thesis is focused on studying the development of the Nordkapp Basin during the Cretaceous Period. The basin is fault-controlled and is strongly influenced by salt tectonics. The basin is divided into two parts, which differs both in the average width and direction of their elongation. Moreover, the salt structures in the northeast and southwest parts of the basin also follow the trends in width ...

This thesis compares polarimetric features from quad-polarimetric (quad-pol) SAR (synthetic aperture radar) data and emulated dual-polarimetric (dual-pol) SAR data to investigate the information captured over sea ice areas located in the Barents Sea. The polarimetric features of entropy (H) and mean alpha, and the H/mean alpha-plot is compared, as well as the cross-polarizarion ratio and the damping ...

Anthropogenic greenhouse gas emissions alter the planet's energy balance and cause heating of the surface and oceans. Estimates of the implications of continued emissions are necessary to assess the severity of the situation. The transient climate response (TCR) is a measure of the climate's response to a continued increase in CO2 concentration, and indicates how much the temperature will increase ...

This thesis focuses on the use of multi-polarization synthetic aperture radar (SAR) for characterization of marine oil spills. In particular, the potential of detecting internal zones within oil slicks in SAR scenes are investigated by a direct within-slick segmentation scheme, along with a sensitivity study of SAR measurements to the evolving nature of oil slicks. A simple, k-means clustering ...

The Arctic climate has changed considerably in the last few decades. Hence, a large fraction of the current studies of the Arctic climate relies on global atmospheric reanalyses, due to the shortage of meteorological observations in the Arctic. However, global climate models have shown to struggle with simulating the current conditions in the Arctic region. Thus, the objective of this thesis is to ...

Moving icebergs represent a major problem for shipping, as well as for oil and gas installations in ice infested waters. To be able to take actions against hazardous icebergs, it is necessary to develop models for prediction of iceberg drift trajectories. Many models have been developed in order to do so, using different approaches. These approaches can be divided into two main categories, dynamic ...

This thesis investigates speckle properties from Sentinel-1 GRDM data to explore its dependency of incidence angle. The data is processed using the SNAP-tool such that a uniform region can be selected and estimation of speckle variance, skewness and kurtosis can be carried out. These speckle properties are calculated over ocean and sea ice for comparison and modeled to fit a regression line. Hypothesis ...

The coastal areas outside Lofoten, Vesterålen and Senja, in the northern Norwegian coast, are known for their incredible nature, majestic mountains and unique fishing communities. This coastal area is known for high marine productivity and an important marine environment, being the home for valuable fish stocks including pollock, haddock, herring and cod. To study the characteristics of coastal ...

The focus of this thesis is to do ice-water classification on Sentinel-1 EW SLC imagery using an unsupervised Mixture of Gaussian segmentation algorithm. The classes are automatically labelled as sea ice or water based on the slope of the observed brightness decay from near- to far-range, which is different for sea ice and water. The aim of the thesis is twofold. In the first part, the ability of ...

The presented thesis deals with the characterisation of hafnium doped zinc oxides with focus on the application as transparent conducting film (TCF) or electron transport layer (ETL) in heterojunction solar cells. Atomic force microscopy (AFM), scanning electron microscopy (SEM), transmission electron microscopy (TEM), electrical and optical methods have been applied to characterise the examined ...