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

78 total publications.

2021

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

2020

  1. Johannessen OM, Bobylev L, Shalina EV, Sandven S. Sea Ice in the Arctic, Past, Present and Future. 2020.
  2. Zakhvatkina NY, Demchev D, Sandven S, Volkov VA, Komarov AS. SAR Sea Ice Type Classification and Drift Retrieval in the Arctic. In: Sea Ice in the Arctic, Past, Present and Future. 2020.
  3. Shalina EV, Khvorostovsky K, Sandven S. Arctic Sea Ice Thickness and Volume Transformation. In: Sea Ice in the Arctic, Past, Present and Future. 2020.
  4. Shalina EV, Johannessen OM, Sandven S. Changes in the Arctic Sea Ice Cover in the Twentieth and Twenty-First Centuries. In: Sea Ice in the Arctic, Past, Present and Future. 2020.
  5. Johannessen OM, Sandven S, Davy R, Olason E. Marginal Ice Zone and Ice-Air-Ocean Interactions [Internet]. In: 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

2019

  1. Vihma T, Uotila P, Sandven S, Pozdnyakov D, Makshtas A, Pelyasov A, et al. 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, et al. 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, et al. 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, et al. 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, Bobylev L, Shalina EV, Sandven S. Sea Ice in the Arctic: Past, Present and Future [Internet]. 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. Zakhvatkina N, Korosov A, Muckenhuber S, Sandven S, Babiker M. Operational algorithm for ice-water classification on dual-polarized RADARSAT-2 images. The Cryosphere. 2017;11(1).
  2. Sagen H, Worcester PF, Dzieciuch M, Geyer F, Sandven S, Babiker M, et al. Resolution, identification, and stability of broadband acoustic arrivals in Fram Strait. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America. 2017;141(3).
  3. Lauer A, Eyring V, Righi M, Buchwitz M, Defourny P, Evaldsson M, et al. Benchmarking CMIP5 models with a subset of ESA CCI Phase 2 data using the ESMValTool. Remote Sensing of Environment. 2017;203.
  4. Boero F, Foglini S, Frachetti P, Goriup E, Macpherson S, Planes T, et al. 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.
  5. 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).
  6. 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

2019

  1. Lee CM, Starkweather S, Eicken H, Timmermans M-L, Wilkinson J, Sandven S, et al. A Framework for the Development, Design and Implementation of a Sustained Arctic Ocean Observing System [Internet]. 2019;6. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/11250/2609560
  2. Smith GC, Allard R, Babin M, Bertino L, Chevallier M, Corlett G, et al. Polar ocean observations: A critical gap in the observing system and its effect on environmental predictions from hours to a season. 2019;6:429.

2013

  1. Mikhalevsky PN, Sagen H, Worcester PF, Baggeroer AB, Orcutt J, Moore SE, et al. Multipurpose Acoustic Networks in the Integrated Arctic Ocean Observing System - AOS 2013. Arctic Observing Summit 2013. 2013;

2012

  1. Robson B. A Remote Sensing Investigation into the evolution of Folgefonna Glacier over the last 150 years. 2012.
  2. Pettersson LH, Sandven S. ArcticROOS Ocean Observing System [Internet]. Arctic Futures Symposium 2011. 2012;:81. Available from: http://www.polarfoundation.org/uploads/documents_files/afs_2011_report.pdf

2011

  1. Kloster K, Sandven S. Ice Motion and Ice Area Flux in the Fram Strait at 79N using ASAR and Passive Microwave for Feb. 2004 – July 2010. Bergen, June 28 - July 2, 2010: 2011.
  2. Sagen H, Sandven S, Haugen SA, Worcester PF, Beszczynska-Möller A, Kemp J, et al. Design and specification of the ACOBAR acoustic array in the Fram Strait. 2011.
  3. Bobylev LP, Volkov VA, Kudryavtsev VN, Pozdnyakov DV, Alexandrov VY, Zabolotskikh EV, et al. Methodologies and tools for analysis of satellite information for monitoring of natural conditions for support of industrial activity in the ice-covered and other seas. Advanced assessment methods of changing in geophysics, ecosystems and technological processes in study and natural resources development of the subarctic Okhotomor'e. 2011;
  4. Sandven S, Dagestad K-F, Babiker M, Korosov A. MAREBASE (Maritime Resources of the Barents Sea: Satellite data driven monitoring in the context of increase of commercial efficiency of the fishery) final report. 2011.
  5. Sagen H, Sandven S, Beszczynska-Möller A. Orgelpiper måler havtemperaturen i Arktis. Teknisk Ukeblad. 2011;158(04/3):75.
  6. Taroudakis M, Skarsoulis E, Papadakis P, Sagen H, Sandven S, Jesus S, et al. Ocean Acoustic Observatories - Concept and spesifications. 2011.
  7. Sagen H, Sandven S, Fahrbach E, Beszczynska-Möller A, Klatt O, Worcester PF, et al. AOEM deliverable D9 - Final report on design of the acoustic network for acoustic tomography, underwater navigation and passive listening in the Fram Strait. 2011.
  8. Bobylev L, Johannessen OM, Shalina EV, Alexandrov V, Sandven S. Changes of Arctic sea ice cover in the end of 20th - beginning of 21st Centuries from satellite remote sensing data and other types of measurements. In: Frolov IY. Oceanograpy and Sea Ice . 2011. p. 18.

2010

  1. Sandven S, Hamre T, Babiker M, Kloster K, Hansen MW, Wåhlin J, et al. MONRUK SAR data analysis report: Monitoring the marine environment in Russia, Ukraine and Kazakhstan using Synthetic Aperture Radar. 2010.
  2. Sagen H, Sandven S, Beszczynska-Möller A, Boebel O, Duda TF, Freitag L, et al. Acoustic technologies for observing the interior of the Arctic Ocean [Internet]. Ocean Obs´09: Sustained Ocean Observations and Information for Society. 2010;Available from: http://www.oceanobs09.net/
  3. Haugen SA, Sagen H, Sandven S, Bertino L, Sakov P, Counillon FS. Use of acoustic Travel Times for ocean model validation, and assimilation. 2010;
  4. Sagen H, Sandven S, Skarsoulis E, Worcester PF, Beszczynska-Möller A, Bertino L, et al. The fram Strait tomography system for ocean model validation, assimilation, and inversion. IPY - Oslo Science Conference. 2010;
  5. Johannessen OM, Sandven S. Arctic Regional ocean observing system (ARCTIC ROOS). IPY - Oslo Science Conference. 2010;
  6. Sandven S, Kloster K, Geyer F, Dumont D, Babiker M. Sea ice drift and area flux in the Fram Strait from SAR data. IPY - Oslo Science Conference. 2010;
  7. Haugen SA, Sagen H, Sandven S, Dzieciuch MA, Worcester PF, Skarsoulis E, et al. Results from the Fram Strait acoustic tomography experiment and system evaluation. 2010.
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