INTERPRETATION OF ELEVATION CHANGES ON SVALBARD GLACIERS AND ICE CAPS FROM AIRBORNE LIDAR DATA

• Main Authors: Jonathan Bamber, William Krabill, Vivienne Raper, Julian Dowdeswell
• Other Authors: The Pennsylvania State University CiteSeerX Archives
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Subjects: Svalbard; Svalbard Archipelago; Nordaustlandet; Vestfonna; Fridtjovbreen; Vegafonna; Airborne Topographic Mapper; glacier; Spitsbergen
• Online Access: http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.496.7064; http://www.uio.no/studier/emner/matnat/geofag/GEO4420/h06/undervisningsmateriale/papers/bamber_geilo.pdf

Abstract. Precise airborne laser surveys were conducted during the spring of 1996 and 2002 using NASA's Airborne Topographic Mapper (ATM) on seventeen ice caps and glaciers in the Svalbard archipelago covering the islands of Spitsbergen and Nordaustlandet. Here, we present results of the elevat...