Development of Grounding Line Database using ERS-1/2 Data by InSAR Technique

Author

Yamanokuchi, Tsutomu ; Doi, Koichiro ; Shibuya, Kazuo ; Aoki, Shigeru

Author_Institution

Remote Sensing Technol. Center of Japan, Tokyo

Volume

4

fYear

2008

fDate

7-11 July 2008

Abstract

We have a plan to build the ocean-continent boundary database at Antarctica mainly to apply InSAR analysis technique using ERS-1 and ERS-2 tandem mission data. This database shows the snapshot of the state of Antarctic ice shelves and ice sheet in 1995-1996, when the tandem mission operated. The ocean-continent boundary data consist of grounding line and coast line, both which have vector property, and these vector data are stored by ESRI shape format (SHP), which is the world´s standard vector format. This database will be expected to be used for ice mass flux study at Antarctica and is opened public on internet in this year to contribute the International Polar Year (IPY) activities and anyone can access this database freely through web browser.

Keywords

Internet; geophysics computing; glaciology; information services; online front-ends; radar interferometry; synthetic aperture radar; AD 1995 to 1996; Antarctica; ERS-1 tandem mission data; ERS-2 tandem mission data; ESRI shape format; IPY activities; InSAR technique; International Polar Year activities; SHP; grounding line database development; ice mass flux study; ice sheet; ice shelves; ocean-continent boundary database; vector data; web browser; Antarctica; Continents; Data mining; Databases; Geographic Information Systems; Grounding; Ice shelf; Layout; Marine technology; Synthetic aperture radar interferometry; Antarctica; InSAR; database; grounding line;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium, 2008. IGARSS 2008. IEEE International

Conference_Location

Boston, MA

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-2807-6

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-4244-2808-3

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/IGARSS.2008.4779921

Filename

4779921