Airborne radar depth sounding of fast flowing glaciers

Author

Smith, L. ; Blake, W. ; Hoch, A. ; Li, J. ; Leuschen, C. ; Gogineni, S.

Author_Institution

Center for the Remote Sensing of Ice Sheets, Univ. of Kansas, Lawrence, KS, USA

Volume

3

fYear

2009

fDate

12-17 July 2009

Abstract

Sea-level rise will affect populations worldwide with considerable and lasting consequences in the not-too-distant future. Accurate measurement of fast flowing outlet glaciers in Greenland and Antarctica are of vital importance to ice sheet models that predict the course of sea-level rise. The Center for the Remote Sensing of Ice Sheets (CReSIS) has developed a suite of tools designed for use with data collected by CReSIS depth sounding radar platforms. This suite includes algorithms for removing clutter and noise from coherent radar data, and the results show successful sounding of some of these fast-flowing glaciers for the first time.

Keywords

airborne radar; geophysics computing; glaciology; radar clutter; remote sensing by radar; Antarctica; Center for the Remote Sensing of Ice Sheets; Greenland; airborne radar depth sounding; clutter rejection algorithm; coherent radar data; fast flowing glaciers; ice sheet models; motion compensation; polar regions; sea-level rise; Airborne radar; Antarctica; Clutter; Ice thickness; Radar antennas; Radar imaging; Remote sensing; Sea level; Sea measurements; Spaceborne radar; airborne remote sensing; clutter rejection algorithm; motion compensation; polar regions;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium,2009 IEEE International,IGARSS 2009

Conference_Location

Cape Town

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-3394-0

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-4244-3395-7

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/IGARSS.2009.5417844

Filename

5417844