The detection of leads to estimate local sea surface height is one crucial step for remote sensing of sea ice thickness with radar altimetry. Algorithms that classify individual radar echoes into the category sea ice, lead, or mixed must return reliable results in all sea ice conditions. To verify the surface type classification algorithms, we use other observational sources as the Sea-ice lead detection in the Arctic from MODIS satellite imagery, 2013-2016 from the Univsersity of Trier.
