CryoSat cal/val activities on Austfonna – Part II: Ground-based measurements using a Ku-band radar, for validation of the CryoSat-2 SIRAL data

• Main Authors: Langley, K., Patel, A., Hawley, R., Dunse, T., Hagen, J.O., Kohler, J., Skourup, H., Gogineni, S., Forsström, S., Eiken, T., Leuschen, C., Helm, Veit
• Format: Conference Object
• Language: unknown
• Published: 2012
• Subjects: Austfonna; Svalbard; glacier; Ice cap
• Online Access: https://epic.awi.de/id/eprint/30778/; https://hdl.handle.net/10013/epic.39705

We show first results of a combined ground based and airborne validation campaign for CryoSat-2 synthetic aperture interferometric radar altimeter (SIRAL) measurements over Austfonna, Svalbard. A decade time series of glacier facies for this ice cap interpreted from 800 MHz ground-penetrating radar...