Ice-sheet elevations from across-track processing of airborne interferometric radar altimetry
Interferometric Radar Altimeters (IRA's) use dual receive antennas to overcome one of the spatial limitations of pulse-limited altimeters. In a conventional IRA measurement, the range and across-track direction of a scatterer are determined using the phase difference between the antennas. We de...
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ftawi:oai:epic.awi.de:21155 2024-09-15T17:46:35+00:00 Ice-sheet elevations from across-track processing of airborne interferometric radar altimetry Hawley, R. L. Sheperd, A. Cullen, R. Helm, Veit Wingham, D. J. 2009 https://epic.awi.de/id/eprint/21155/ https://doi.org/10.1029/2009GL040416 https://hdl.handle.net/10013/epic.33644 unknown Hawley, R. L. , Sheperd, A. , Cullen, R. , Helm, V. orcid:0000-0001-7788-9328 and Wingham, D. J. (2009) Ice-sheet elevations from across-track processing of airborne interferometric radar altimetry , Geophysical Research Letters., 36 (L22501) . doi:10.1029/2009GL040416 <https://doi.org/10.1029/2009GL040416> , hdl:10013/epic.33644 EPIC3Geophysical Research Letters., 36(L22501) Article isiRev 2009 ftawi https://doi.org/10.1029/2009GL040416 2024-06-24T04:01:33Z Interferometric Radar Altimeters (IRA's) use dual receive antennas to overcome one of the spatial limitations of pulse-limited altimeters. In a conventional IRA measurement, the range and across-track direction of a scatterer are determined using the phase difference between the antennas. We demonstrate a method of determining multiple elevation points across a swath orthogonal to the instrument ground track in regions of steep terrain, such as ice-sheet margins. We use data from an airborne IRA (a prototype of the CryoSat-2 instrument), and compare the results to simultaneous Airborne Laser Scanner (ALS) observations. This application results in a 75-fold increase in measurement density compared to conventional radar altimetry. Along a ∼2.5 km ground track, the RMS departure between the IRA- and ALS-derived measurements was 1.67 m. Based on our result, although our approach is limited to areas of relatively steep slope, a 25- to 75-fold increase in elevation measurements could be achieved in coastal regions of Antarctica and Greenland with similar processing of CryoSat-2 data. Article in Journal/Newspaper Antarc* Antarctica Greenland Ice Sheet Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar- and Marine Research (AWI): ePIC (electronic Publication Information Center) Geophysical Research Letters 36 22 |
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Interferometric Radar Altimeters (IRA's) use dual receive antennas to overcome one of the spatial limitations of pulse-limited altimeters. In a conventional IRA measurement, the range and across-track direction of a scatterer are determined using the phase difference between the antennas. We demonstrate a method of determining multiple elevation points across a swath orthogonal to the instrument ground track in regions of steep terrain, such as ice-sheet margins. We use data from an airborne IRA (a prototype of the CryoSat-2 instrument), and compare the results to simultaneous Airborne Laser Scanner (ALS) observations. This application results in a 75-fold increase in measurement density compared to conventional radar altimetry. Along a ∼2.5 km ground track, the RMS departure between the IRA- and ALS-derived measurements was 1.67 m. Based on our result, although our approach is limited to areas of relatively steep slope, a 25- to 75-fold increase in elevation measurements could be achieved in coastal regions of Antarctica and Greenland with similar processing of CryoSat-2 data. |
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Hawley, R. L. Sheperd, A. Cullen, R. Helm, Veit Wingham, D. J. |
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Ice-sheet elevations from across-track processing of airborne interferometric radar altimetry |
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Ice-sheet elevations from across-track processing of airborne interferometric radar altimetry |
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Ice-sheet elevations from across-track processing of airborne interferometric radar altimetry |
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Ice-sheet elevations from across-track processing of airborne interferometric radar altimetry |
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Ice-sheet elevations from across-track processing of airborne interferometric radar altimetry |
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ice-sheet elevations from across-track processing of airborne interferometric radar altimetry |
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Antarc* Antarctica Greenland Ice Sheet |
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Antarc* Antarctica Greenland Ice Sheet |
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Hawley, R. L. , Sheperd, A. , Cullen, R. , Helm, V. orcid:0000-0001-7788-9328 and Wingham, D. J. (2009) Ice-sheet elevations from across-track processing of airborne interferometric radar altimetry , Geophysical Research Letters., 36 (L22501) . doi:10.1029/2009GL040416 <https://doi.org/10.1029/2009GL040416> , hdl:10013/epic.33644 |
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