The invention discloses a
remote sensing estimation method for the thickness of
sea ice. The
remote sensing estimation method comprises the steps that a ground echo waveform is obtained from a CryoSat-2
radar altimeter, a raw echo waveform is fit through a composite cubic Bezier curve, the position of a waveform re-tracking point is solved, the
freeboard height of the
sea ice is calculated, and meanwhile, data such as the accumulated
snow depth and the
sea ice type in the same period are obtained; the data are subjected to geographical coordinate matching to obtain
point data containing the
freeboard height of the sea ice, the accumulated
snow depth and the sea ice type; different sea ice densities are given to one-year ice and multiyear ice, by combining the accumulated
snow density withthe
seawater density, the thickness of the sea ice is estimated through a hydrostatic model, and finally a
sea ice thickness distribution diagram in a study area is obtained through projection transformation, raster conversion and space
resampling. According to the
remote sensing estimation method, a novel waveform re-tracking method, namely a composite cubic Bezier
curve fitting method, is adopted, the problem that an original method is sensitive to the surface characteristics of ground features is solved, and thus the estimation accuracy of the thickness of the sea ice is improved.