The development of new ice in uncalm conditions normally forms pancake ice.
Because the pancakes are smaller than the spatial resolution, the backscatter will
be given by the integrated contribution from the individual pancakes and the
surroundings.
The appearance of pancake ice is therefore varying with the density of pancakes and
the conditions of the surroundings.
Wind will often push the pancakes together in long bands, and an example of
pancake ice is shown in figure 
.
Figure: Pancake ice on January 11 1993
In February 1993 [Wadhams and Viehoff, 1993] have observed, that the ice in the Odden area consists of dense pancake ice. They have further concluded, that pancake ice and frazil are the primary ice types in the Odden area during winter.
Tim Flintholm Fink<tff@emi.dtu.dk>