Bathymetry and absorptivity of Titan's Ontario Lacus

Journal of Geophysical Research: Planets

Volumn 115, Issue 9, 2010, Pages

  Hayes, A G ^a   Wolf, A S ^a   Aharonson, O ^a   Zebker, H ^b   Lorenz, R ^c   Kirk, R L ^d   Paillou, P ^e   Lunine, J ^f   Wye, L ^b   Callahan, P ^g   Wall, S ^g   Elachi, C ^g  

^a CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b Stanford University   (United States)

^c JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY APPLIED PHYSICS LABORATORY   (United States)

^d U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITÉ DE BORDEAUX   (France)

^f UNIVERSITY OF ROME TOR VERGATA   (Italy)

^g CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABSORPTION; BACKSCATTER; BATHYMETRY; LAKE; PLANETARY EVOLUTION; PLANETARY SURFACE; SATELLITE ALTIMETRY; SATELLITE IMAGERY; SHORELINE CHANGE; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR; TITAN; TOPOGRAPHY;

EID: 77957578676     PISSN: 01480227     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2009JE003557     Document Type: Article

References (37)

1. Barnes, J. W., et al. (2009), Shoreline features of Titan's Ontario Lacus from Cassini/VIMS observations, Icarus, 201, 217-225, doi:10.1016/j. icarus.2008.12.028.
2. Brown, R. H., et al. (2008), The identification of liquid ethane in Titan's Ontario Lacus, Nature, 454, 607-610, doi:10.1038/nature07100.
3. Brunskill, G. J., and D. W. Schindler (1971), Geography and bathymetry of selected lake basins, Experimental Lakes Area, northwestern Ontario, J. Fish Res. Board Can., 28, 139-155.
4. Cordier, D. C, O. Mousis, I. L. Lunine, P. Lavvas, and V. Vuitton (2009), An estimate of the chemical composition of Titan's lakes, Astrophys. J., 707, L128-L131, doi:10.1088/0004-637X/707/2/L128.
5. Elachi, C, and J. van Zyl (2006), Introduction to the Physics and Techniques of Remote Sensing, 2nd ed., Wiley-Interscience, Hoboken, N. J.
6. Gardner, J. V., et al. (2001), Multibeam mapping of Lake Tahoe, California-Nevada from field activity: L-1-98-lt, Tech. Rep., U.S. Geol. Surv. Coastal Mar. Geol., Menlo Park, Calif.
7. Goodman, J. W. (1976), Some fundamental properties of speckle, J. Opt. Soc. Am., 66, 1145-1150.
8. Hayes, A. G., et al. (2008), Hydrocarbon lakes on Titan: Distribution and interaction with a porous regolith, Geophys. Res. Lett., 35, L09204, doi:10.1029/2008GL033409.
9. Hayes, A. G., et al. (2010), Transient surface liquid in Titan's polar regions from Cassini, Icarus, in press.
10. Iess, L., N. J. Rappaport, R. A. Jacobson, P. Racioppa, D. J. Stevenson, P. Tortora, J. W. Armstrong, and S. W. Asmar (2010), Gravity field, shape, and moment of inertia of Titan, Science, 327, 1367-1369, doi:10.1126/science. 1182853.
11. Jiang, J., and R. Plotnick (1998), Fractal analysis of the complexity of United States coastlines, Math. Geol., 30, 535-546, doi:10.1023/A:1021790111404.
12. Klinkenberg, B., and M. F. Goodchild (2006), The fractal poperties of topography: A comparison of methods, Earth Surf. Processes Landforms, 17, 217-234.
13. Levenberg, K. (1944), A method for the solution of certain problems in least-squares, Q. Appl. Math., 2, 164-168.
14. Lorenz, R. D. (1993), The life, death and afterlife of a raindrop on Titan, Planet. Space Sci., 41, 647-655, doi:10.1016/0032-0633(93)90048-7.
15. Lorenz, R. D., B. Jackson, and A. G. Hayes (2009), Racetrack and Bonnie Claire: Southwestern US playa lakes as analogs for Ontario Lacus, Titan, Planet. Space Sci., 58, 724-731, doi:10.1016/j.pss.2009.05.012.
16. Lunine, J. I., D. J. Stevenson, and Y. L. Yung (1983), Ethane ocean on Titan, Science, 222, 1229-1230, doi:10.1126/science.222.4629.1229.
17. Mandelbrot, B. (1967), How long is the coast of Britain? Statistical self-similarity and fractional dimension, Science, 156, 636-638.
18. Mandelbrot, B. (1983), The Fractal Geometry of Nature, W. H. Freeman, New York.
19. Marquardt, D. (1963), An algorithm for least-sqaures estimation of nonlinear parameters, SIAMJ. Appl. Math., 11, 431-444.
20. Mitri, G., A. P. Showman, J. I. Lunine, and R. D. Lorenz (2007), Hydrocarbon lakes on Titan, Icarus, 186, 385-394, doi:10.1016/j.icarus.2006.09. 004.
21. Paillou, P., M. Crapeau, C. Elachi, S. Wall, and P. Encrenaz (2006), Models of synthetic aperture radar backscattering for bright flows and dark spots on Titan, J. Geophys. Res., 111, E11011, doi:10.1029/2006JE002724. (Pubitemid 350284667)
22. Paillou, P., J. Lunine, G. Ruffié, P. Encrenaz, S. Wall, R. Lorenz, and M. Janssen (2008a), Microwave dielectric constant of Titan-relevant materials, Geophys. Res. Lett, 35, L18202, doi:10.1029/2008GL035216.
23. Paillou, P., et al. (2008b), Microwave dielectric constant of liquid hydrocarbons: Application to the depth estimation of Titan's lakes, Geophys. Res. Lett, 35, L05202, doi:10.1029/2007GL032515. (Pubitemid 351675989)
24. Phillips, J. D. (1986), Spatial analysis of shoreline erosion, Delaware Bay, New Jersey, Ann. Assoc. Am. Geogr., 76, 50-62.
25. Press, W., B. Flannery, S. Teukolsky, and W. Vetterling (1992), Numerical Recipes in C: The Art of Scientific Computing, Cambridge Univ. Press, Cambridge, U. K.
26. Saupe, D. (1988), Algorithms for random fractals, in The Science of Fractal Images, pp. 71-113, Springer, New York.
27. Schwimmer, R. A. (2008), A temporal geometric analysis of eroding marsh shorelines: Can fractal dimensions be related to process?, J. Coastal Res., 24, 152-158.
28. Sen, A. D., V. G. Anicich, and T. Arakelian (1992), Dielectric constant of liquid alkanes and hydrocarbon mixtures, J. Appl. Phys., 25, 512-521.
29. Sharma, P., and S. Byrne (2008), Constraints on Titan's topography through fractal analysis of shorelines, Lunar Planet. Sci., XXXIX, Abstract 2145.
30. Turcotte, D. L. (1997), Fractals and Chaos in Geology and Geophysics, Cambridge Univ. Press, Cambridge, U. K.
31. Turtle, E. P., J. E. Perry, A. S. McEwen, A. D. DelGenio, J. Barbara, R. A. West, D. D. Dawson, and C. C. Porco (2009), Cassini imaging of Titan's high-latitude lakes, clouds, and south-polar surface changes, Geophys. Res. Lett, 36, L02204, doi:10.1029/2008GL036186.
32. Ulaby, F. T., R. K. Moore, and A. K. Fung (1982), Microwave Remote Sensing: Active and Passive, vol. 2, Artech House, Norwood, Mass.
33. Ventura, B., C. Notarnicola, D. Casarano, M. Janssen, and F. Posa (2009), Characterization of Titan surface scenarios combining Cassini SAR images and radiometry data, paper presented at General Assembly 2009, Abstract EGU2009-13070, Eur. Geophys. Union, Vienna.
34. Wall, S., et al. (2010), Active shoreline of Ontario Lacus, Titan: A morphological study of the lake and its surroundings, Geophys. Res. Lett, 37, L05202, doi:10.1029/2009GL041821.
35. Waples, J., R. Paddock, J. Janssen, D. Lovalvo, B. Schulze, J. Kaster, and J. Klump (2005), High resolution bathymetry and lakebed characterization in the near-shore of western Lake Michigan, J. Great Lakes Res., 31, 64-74.
36. Wright, J. W. (1968), A new model for sea clutter, IEEE Trans. Antennas Propag., 16, 217-223.
37. Wye, L. C, H. A. Zebker, and R. D. Lorenz (2009), Smoothness constraints on Titan's Ontario Lacus: Constraints from Cassini RADAR specular reflection data, Geophys. Res. Lett, 36, L16201, doi:10.1029/2009GL039588.