Stein Sandven

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Stein Sandven

Research interests

The research activities are mainly in the areas of remote sensing of sea ice and oceanographic processes including ocean acoustics.  Work includes ocean and sea ice field work with data collection and data analysis.  In sea ice research data from different types of satellite sensors are used for studies of sea ice classification, drift, thickness and processes such as leads, polynyas and ridges. Validation of sea ice remote sensing data uses data from in situ observations. The research is focused on development of operational observing systems for the Arctic seas using both satellite, in situ, and underwater sensors. 

He has been coordinator of many Arctic research projects during the last 30 years, including 19 EU projects, 16 ESA projects and 20 projects under the Research Council of Norway. From 2011 to 2018 he was the science leader of the ESA CCI sea ice project (2012-2018).  From 2017 his main responsibility and fulltime job is to coordinate the H2020 project Arctic Integrated Observation System (INTAROS), which runs from 2016 to 2022. INTAROS has 49 partners from 20 countries and a budget of 15.5 MEURO. As coordinator of INTAROS, he works with the major organisations, programmes and projects related to Arctic observing systems in Europe, North America and Asia. From 2020 to 2022 he is coordinator of the Coordination and Support Action CAPARDUS under H2020.  Presently he is member of the advisory boards for several new Arctic projects funded by EU and the Research Council of Norway.

CV

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Project leader of the following projects

  1. CAPARDUS: Capacity-building in Arctic standardization development
  2. UAK: Useful Arctic Knowledge -
  3. NFR-INTAROS: INTEGRATED ARCTIC OBSERVATION SYSTEM (INTAROS)
  4. INTAROS: H2020: Integrated Arctic Observation System
  5. SONARC: Development of sea ice monitoring and forecasting system to support safe operations and navigation in Arctic Seas
  6. IceMotion: High resolution sea-ice motion from Synthetical Aperture Radar using pattern tracking and Doppler shift
  7. ONR-Acoustics: Under-ice Acoustic propagation
  8. SIDARUS: Sea ice downstream services for Arctic and Antarctic Users and Stakeholders
  9. NETMAR: Open service network for Marine Environmental Data
  10. WIFAR: Waves-in-Ice Forecasting for Arctic Operators

NERSC Principal Investigator of the following projects

  1. SPICES: Space-borne observations for detecting and forecasting sea ice cover extremes
  2. SIOS-PP: Svalbard Integrated Arctic Earth Observing System
  3. AWAKE: Arctic Climate and Environment of the Nordic Seas and the Svalbard – Greenland Area
  4. DAMOCLES: Developing Arctic Modelling and Observing Capabilities for Long-term Studies

Project deputy leader of the following projects

  1. ARCONOR: Arctic cooperation between Norway, Russia, India, China and US in satellite Earth observation and Education
  2. UNDER-ICE: Arctic ocean under melting ice

Peer Review Publications and Books

79 total publications.

2021

  1. Starkweather S, Larsen JR, Kruemmel E, Eicken H, Arthurs D, Bradley AC, mfl. Sustaining Arctic Observing Networks’ (SAON) Roadmap for Arctic Observing and Data Systems (ROADS). Arctic. 2021;74(5).

2020

  1. Shalina EV, Johannessen OM, Sandven S. Changes in the Arctic Sea Ice Cover in the Twentieth and Twenty-First Centuries. I: Sea Ice in the Arctic, Past, Present and Future. 2020.
  2. Johannessen OM, Sandven S, Davy R, Olason E. Marginal Ice Zone and Ice-Air-Ocean Interactions [Internett]. I: Sea Ice in the Arctic, Past, Present and Future. 2020. Available from: https://bibsys-almaprimo.hosted.exlibrisgroup.com/permalink/f/1rtq5h1/TN_cdi_springer_books_10_1007_978_3_030_21301_5_3
  3. Johannessen OM, Bobylev L, Shalina EV, Sandven S. Sea Ice in the Arctic, Past, Present and Future. 2020.
  4. Zakhvatkina NY, Demchev D, Sandven S, Volkov VA, Komarov AS. SAR Sea Ice Type Classification and Drift Retrieval in the Arctic. I: Sea Ice in the Arctic, Past, Present and Future. 2020.
  5. Shalina EV, Khvorostovsky K, Sandven S. Arctic Sea Ice Thickness and Volume Transformation. I: Sea Ice in the Arctic, Past, Present and Future. 2020.

2019

  1. Vihma T, Uotila P, Sandven S, Pozdnyakov D, Makshtas A, Pelyasov A, mfl. Towards an advanced observation system for the marine Arctic in the framework of the Pan-Eurasian Experiment (PEEX). Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics (ACP). 2019;19(3).
  2. Lavergne T, Sørensen JAM, Kern S, Tonboe R, Notz D, Aaboe S, mfl. Version 2 of the EUMETSAT OSI SAF and ESA CCI sea-ice concentration climate data records. The Cryosphere. 2019;13(1).
  3. Lee CM, Starkweather S, Eicken H, Timmermans M-L, Wilkinson J, Sandven S, mfl. A Framework for the Development, Design and Implementation of a Sustained Arctic Ocean Observing System. Frontiers in Marine Science. 2019;
  4. Smith GC, Allard R, Babin M, Bertino L, Chevallier M, Corlett G, mfl. Polar Ocean Observations: A critical gap in the observing system and its effect on environmental predictions from hours to a season. Frontiers in Marine Science. 2019;
  5. Johannessen OM, Sandven S, Chunchuzov IP, Shuchman RA. Observations of internal waves generated by an anticyclonic eddy: a case study in the ice edge region of the Greenland Sea. Tellus A: Dynamic Meteorology and Oceanography. 2019;71(1).
  6. Johannessen OM, Bobylev L, Shalina EV, Sandven S. Sea Ice in the Arctic: Past, Present and Future [Internett]. 2019. Available from: https://www.springer.com/gp/book/9783030213008

2018

  1. Park J-W, Korosov A, Babiker M, Sandven S, Won J-S. Efficient Thermal Noise Removal for Sentinel-1 TOPSAR Cross-Polarization Channel. IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing. 2018;56(3).
  2. Muckenhuber S, Sandven S. Sea ice drift data for Fram Strait derived from a feature-tracking algorithm applied on Sentinel-1 SAR imagery. Data in Brief. 2018;18.
  3. Shalina EV, Sandven S. Snow depth on Arctic sea ice from historical in situ data. The Cryosphere. 2018;12(6).

2017

  1. Lauer A, Eyring V, Righi M, Buchwitz M, Defourny P, Evaldsson M, mfl. Benchmarking CMIP5 models with a subset of ESA CCI Phase 2 data using the ESMValTool. Remote Sensing of Environment. 2017;203.
  2. Boero F, Foglini S, Frachetti P, Goriup E, Macpherson S, Planes T, mfl. CoCoNet: Towards Coast to Coast Networks of Marine Protected Areas (from the shore to the high and deep sea), coupled with Sea-Based Wind Energy Potential. SCIRES-IT SCIentific RESearch and Information Technology. 2017;6.
  3. Demchev D, Volkov V, Kazakov E, Alcantarilla PF, Sandven S, Khmeleva V. Sea ice drift tracking from sequential SAR images using accelerated-KAZE features. IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing. 2017;55(9).
  4. Muckenhuber S, Sandven S. Open-source sea ice drift algorithm for Sentinel-1 SAR imagery using a combination of feature tracking and pattern matching. The Cryosphere. 2017;11(4).
  5. Sandven S. Sea ice as an essential climate variable from remote sensing and modelling. Proceedings - International Conference on Port and Ocean Engineering under Arctic Conditions. 2017;

Other Publications

1999

  1. Sandven S, Johannessen OM, Kloster K. Sea Ice Monitoring. I: Encyclopedia of Analytical Chemistry. 1999.
  2. Johannessen OM, Sandven S, Pettersson LH, Volkov AM, Asmus V, Milekhin OE, mfl. ICEWATCH - Real-time Sea ice Monitoring of the Northern Sea Route using Satellite Radar Technology. Proceedings from POAC´99, Helsinki, August 23-27, Vol. 2. 1999;:498-507.
  3. Christensen A, Sandven S, Krzywinski K, Bjune AA, Bodo BB. Use of Satellite Data in Hydrological Model and Flood Prediction. 1999.
  4. Sandven S, Alexandrov V, Dalen Ø, Lundhaug M, Melentyev VV, Smirnov V, mfl. Practical demonstration of real-time RADARSAT SAR data for Ice Navigation on the Northern Sea Route. INSROP Working Paper, 2-4 February 1999. 1999;:32.
  5. Alexandrov V, Sandven S, Lundhaug M, Dalen Ø, Bogdanov AA, Kloster K. Analysis of winter sea ice in the Kara Sea region using SAR data and field observations. Proceedings of the 15th International Conference on Port and Ocean Engineeringunder Arctic Conditions, Helsinki, Finland August 23-27 1999. 1999;:181-190.
  6. Sandven S, Johannessen JA, Haugen V, Samuel P, Kloster K, Hamre T, mfl. Satellite remote sensing of Ocean Fronts and Currents off Mid-Norway. 1999.
  7. Melentyev VV, Johannessen OM, Sandven S, Pettersson LH. Ice Regime Study for the Ob-Yenisey Estuaries Using ERS SAR Data. In proceedings of IGARSS'99, Hamburg Germany 28June-2July, 1999. 1999;
  8. Melentyev VV, Pettersson LH, Sandven S, Kloster K, Dalen Ø. Use of satellite radar mapping of ice features to describe the fall freezing conditions - a case study from the Ob estuary. Proceedings from POAC´99, Helsinki, August 23-27 1999 Vol. 1. 1999;:249-255.
  9. Sandven S, Seina A, Grönvall H, Valeur HH, Steen AH. OSIMS - Operational Sea Ice Monitoring by Satellites in Europe. Proceedings of the 15th International Conference on Port and Ocean Engineeringunder Arctic Conditions, Helsinki, Finland, August 23-27 1999. 1999;:508-517.
  10. Pettersson LH, Sandven S, Dalen Ø, Melentyev VV, Babich N. Satellite radar ice monitoring for ice navigation of the ARCDEV tanker convoy in the Kara Sea. Proceedings from POAC´99, Helsinki, August 23-27 1999 Vol. 1. 1999;:141-153.
  11. Sandven S, Hamre T. CEO Inventory on Non-Space Data, WP 2200 DEM and bathymetric data sets. 1999.
  12. Sandven S, Johannessen OM, Pettersson LH, Dalen Ø, Kloster K, Bobylev L, mfl. The use of RADARSAT SAR Data in Ice Management and Planning of Russian Arctic Offshore Operations. Proceedings of 2nd ISOPE European Offshore Mechanics Symposium (ISOPE EUROMS-99), Moscow, Russia, June 7-9 1999 and in Proceedings of 9th Intern. Offshore and Polar Engineering Conference (ISOPE-99), Brest, France May 30-June 4 1999. 1999;
  13. Bogdanov AA, Sandven S, Johannessen OM, Alexandrov V. Automatic Classification of RADARSAT SAR Images of the Northern Sea Route. In proceedings of IGARSS'99, Hamburg Germany, 28June-2July,1999. 1999;
  14. Sandven S, Jenkins A, Pettersson LH, Mastenbroek K, Wensink H, Reistad M, mfl. Metocean and Coastal Zone Monitoring in Harbour Regions Using Satellite Radar. 1999.
  15. Espedal H, Alendal G, Sandven S, Drange H. Final Report: Development of a natural oil seepage detection system. 1999.
  16. Hamre T, Sagen H, Sandven S. Reorganisation of LYBIN. Workpackage 2B Report. Development of a new system structure for SFK (Sjøforsvarets Forsyningskommando) (The Royal Norwegian Navy Material Command). 1999.
  17. Pettersson LH, Sandven S, Dalen Ø, Melentyev VV, Babich N. Satellite radar ice monitoring for ice navigation of a tanker convoy in the Kara Sea. Proceedings from IGARSS´99, Hamburg, Germany, June 1999. 1999;
  18. Pettersson LH, Sandven S, Dalen Ø, Melentyev VV, Kloster K, Lundhaug M, mfl. Arctic demonstration and ice conditions and WP 10 Remote services and maintenance. 1999.
  19. Johannessen OM, Sandven S, Espedal H, Furevik BR, Solhaug JJ, Korsbakken E. Synthetic Aperture Radar Imaging of ocean and ice phenomena. Rapport til NFR SAR strategiprogram. 1999.
  20. Sandven S, Mäkynen M, Hallikainen M, Grönvall H, Seina A, Similä M, mfl. Integrated use of new microwave satellite data for improved sea ice observation - IMSI Final Report. 1999.
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