Monitoring the Petermann ice island with TanDEM-X

Author

García, José A. ; Eyssartier, Kevin ; López-Dekker, Paco ; Prats, Pau ; De Zan, Francesco ; Krieger, Gerhard ; Busche, Thomas

Author_Institution

German Aerosp. Center, Microwave & Radar Inst., Oberpfaffenhofen, Germany

fYear

2012

fDate

22-27 July 2012

Firstpage

1912

Lastpage

1915

Abstract

This paper presents the processing of TanDEM-X acquisitions for the monitoring of the topography of the Petermann ice island. In this particular case the area under study is continuously moving and the acquisition geometry is changing, so the processing of the iceberg´s DEMs is challenging and additional effects are to be considered. The SAR processing chain used is presented and the results obtained summarized, showing the effects and limitations observed during the process.

Keywords

data acquisition; digital elevation models; glaciology; oceanographic techniques; remote sensing by radar; sea ice; synthetic aperture radar; topography (Earth); Greenland; Petermann glacier; Petermann ice island monitoring; SAR processing chain; TanDEM-X acquisition; acquisition geometry; iceberg DEM; topography monitoring; Band pass filters; Correlation; Ice; Monitoring; Surface treatment; Synthetic aperture radar; Transforms; DEM; Radon; TanDEM-X; iceberg;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium (IGARSS), 2012 IEEE International

Conference_Location

Munich

ISSN

2153-6996

Print_ISBN

978-1-4673-1160-1

Electronic_ISBN

2153-6996

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/IGARSS.2012.6351131

Filename

6351131