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In this study, we present observations about the sensitivity of CP SAR imagery to thickness of thermodynamically-grown fast sea ice during early ice growth (September\u2013December 2017) in the Resolute Bay area, Canadian Central Arctic. Fast ice is most suitable to use for this preliminary study since it exhibits only thermodynamic growth in absence of ice mobility and deformation. Results reveal that ice thickness up to 30 cm can be retrieved using several CP parameters from the tested set. This ice thickness corresponds to the thickness of young ice. We found the surface scattering mechanism to be dominant during the early ice growth, exposing an increasing tendency up to 30 cm thickness with a correlation coefficient with the thickness equal to 0.86. The degree of polarization was found to be the parameter with the highest correlation up to 0.95. 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