InSAR results from the RADARSAT Antarctic Mapping Mission data: estimation of glacier motion using a simple registration procedure

Author

Gray, A.L. ; Mattar, K.E. ; Vachon, P.W. ; Bindschadler, R. ; Jezek, K.C. ; Forster, R. ; Crawford, J.P.

Author_Institution

Canada Centre for Remote Sensing, Ottawa, Ont., Canada

Volume

3

fYear

1998

fDate

6-10 Jul 1998

Firstpage

1638

Abstract

An interferometric method is used to derive ice motion from RADARSAT data collected during the Antarctic Mapping Mission. Although one cannot solve for both topography and ice motion using one interferometric pair, it is possible to use a coarsely sampled digital terrain model to estimate ice motion using an image registration method. Less accurate than the usual fringe counting method for estimation of radial displacement, the image registration method allows useful motion estimation in both range and azimuth. The method is described and some results shown for a large area (~17000 km²) including ice flow into the Filchner Ice Shelf

Keywords

geophysical signal processing; glaciology; hydrological techniques; image registration; motion estimation; radar imaging; remote sensing by radar; spaceborne radar; synthetic aperture radar; Antarctic Mapping Mission; Antarctica; Filchner Ice Shelf; InSAR; RADARSAT; SAR interferometry; glaciology; hydrology; ice motion; ice stream motion; image registration; interferometric SAR; interferometric method; measurement technique; polar ice sheet; radar imaging; radar remote sensing; spaceborne radar; synthetic aperture radar; Antarctica; Azimuth; Digital elevation models; Ice; Image registration; Motion estimation; NASA; Propulsion; Remote sensing; Synthetic aperture radar interferometry;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium Proceedings, 1998. IGARSS '98. 1998 IEEE International

Conference_Location

Seattle, WA

Print_ISBN

0-7803-4403-0

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/IGARSS.1998.691662

Filename

691662