Floe size distributions from near-coincident MEDEA and MODIS images, 2014. (a) FSD (number density) from MEDEA subset #1 of May 30 and MODIS of May 30. (b) FSD from MEDEA subsets #1 and #2 of June 17 and MODIS of June 16. (c) FSD from MEDEA subsets #1–#5 of July 8 and MODIS of July 11. The MEDEA FSD slopes do not exactly match the MODIS FSD slopes according to a strict statistical test, but clearly the slopes are similar. The offsets between MEDEA and MODIS are simply due to different ice concentrations. Note that the area covered by each MEDEA scene is very small compared to the area covered by MODIS (see Figure 9). The slope is the important parameter in these comparisons, not the offset. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1525/elementa.305.f12