Title :
Airborne 3D basal DEM and ice thickness map of Pine Island Glacier
Author :
Blake, William ; Shi, Lei ; Meisel, Joshua ; Allen, Christopher ; Gogineni, Prasad
Author_Institution :
Center for Remote Sensing of Ice Sheets, Univ. of Kankas, Lawrence, KS, USA
Abstract :
During NASA´s Operation Ice Bridge a gridded survey was flown over Pine Island Glacier (PIG). This survey was a finer grid than previously flown over this area. The data collected confirm that the majority of the ice at the bottom of PIG is below sea level which could be a major cause in the speed-up of the ice flow in that area. These data can be used in flow rate calculations and to the mass balance in that area.
Keywords :
digital elevation models; glaciology; remote sensing; sea ice; sea level; NASA; Operation Ice Bridge; Pine Island Glacier; airborne 3D basal DEM; flow rate calculations; ice flow; ice sounding; ice thickness map; mass balance; remote sensing; sea level; DEM; Pine Island Glacier; ice sounding; remote sensing;
Conference_Titel :
Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium (IGARSS), 2010 IEEE International
Conference_Location :
Honolulu, HI
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4244-9565-8
Electronic_ISBN :
2153-6996
DOI :
10.1109/IGARSS.2010.5653924
