Kangerdlugssuaq Glacier ice front positions, 1985-2018
Ice front positions for Kangerdlugssuaq Glacier based on digitisation of satellite images between 1985 to 2018. : The ice front of Kangerdlugssuaq Glacier was manually digitised on 733 satellite images acquired between April 1985 and November 2018. The satellite images include Landsat 5, Landsat 7,...
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ftdatacite:10.5285/b317f707-2ef6-449c-acc3-6bb087efecb1 2023-05-15T16:41:00+02:00 Kangerdlugssuaq Glacier ice front positions, 1985-2018 Bevan, Suzanne Luckman, Adrian 2019 text/plain https://dx.doi.org/10.5285/b317f707-2ef6-449c-acc3-6bb087efecb1 https://data.bas.ac.uk/full-record.php?id=GB/NERC/BAS/PDC/01120 en eng UK Polar Data Centre, Natural Environment Research Council, UK Research & Innovation http://standrewsglaciology.org/research/calismo http://standrewsglaciology.org/research/calismo https://dx.doi.org/10.5285/c26e3873-e33e-45be-b76b-87f3b8827101 https://dx.doi.org/10.5285/3bbacca6-d2cd-46be-b824-b828572ca486 https://dx.doi.org/10.5194/tc-2018-260 https://dx.doi.org/10.5194/tc-6-923-2012 https://dx.doi.org/10.5285/61100705-dfbc-489d-b729-1268ec743bbf Open Government Licence V3.0 http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3 "EARTH SCIENCE","CRYOSPHERE","GLACIERS/ICE SHEETS","GLACIER MOTION/ICE SHEET MOTION" "EARTH SCIENCE","CRYOSPHERE","GLACIERS/ICE SHEETS","GLACIERS" "EARTH SCIENCE","TERRESTRIAL HYDROSPHERE","GLACIERS/ICE SHEETS","GLACIERS" Kangerdlugssuq Glacier Ice front positions dataset Kangerdlugssuaq Glacier ice front positions Dataset 2019 ftdatacite https://doi.org/10.5285/b317f707-2ef6-449c-acc3-6bb087efecb1 https://doi.org/10.5285/c26e3873-e33e-45be-b76b-87f3b8827101 https://doi.org/10.5285/3bbacca6-d2cd-46be-b824-b828572ca486 https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-2018-260 https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-6 2021-11-05T12:55:41Z Ice front positions for Kangerdlugssuaq Glacier based on digitisation of satellite images between 1985 to 2018. : The ice front of Kangerdlugssuaq Glacier was manually digitised on 733 satellite images acquired between April 1985 and November 2018. The satellite images include Landsat 5, Landsat 7, Landsat 8, ERS-1, ERS-2, Envisat Image Mode and Wideswath Mode, TerraSAR-X and Sentinel 1A and B Interferometric mode Ground Range Detected (IW GRD) images. The intersection points of the frontal vectors with 23 straight flow-parallel lines spaced at 160 m intervals were averaged to create mean ice-front positions. : The digitisation was carried out using Gamma Remote Sensing software module Polyras. : The accuracy of the data varies according to the initial spatial resolution and geolocation of the images and is likely to improve throughout the time sequence as processing and orbit vectors have improved. Bevan et al. (2012) estimated the accuracy for all types of imagery up to 2012 to be at least +/- 76 m. Dataset Ice Sheet DataCite Metadata Store (German National Library of Science and Technology) |
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Ice front positions for Kangerdlugssuaq Glacier based on digitisation of satellite images between 1985 to 2018. : The ice front of Kangerdlugssuaq Glacier was manually digitised on 733 satellite images acquired between April 1985 and November 2018. The satellite images include Landsat 5, Landsat 7, Landsat 8, ERS-1, ERS-2, Envisat Image Mode and Wideswath Mode, TerraSAR-X and Sentinel 1A and B Interferometric mode Ground Range Detected (IW GRD) images. The intersection points of the frontal vectors with 23 straight flow-parallel lines spaced at 160 m intervals were averaged to create mean ice-front positions. : The digitisation was carried out using Gamma Remote Sensing software module Polyras. : The accuracy of the data varies according to the initial spatial resolution and geolocation of the images and is likely to improve throughout the time sequence as processing and orbit vectors have improved. Bevan et al. (2012) estimated the accuracy for all types of imagery up to 2012 to be at least +/- 76 m. |
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Kangerdlugssuaq Glacier ice front positions, 1985-2018 |
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Kangerdlugssuaq Glacier ice front positions, 1985-2018 |
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Kangerdlugssuaq Glacier ice front positions, 1985-2018 |
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Kangerdlugssuaq Glacier ice front positions, 1985-2018 |
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Kangerdlugssuaq Glacier ice front positions, 1985-2018 |
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kangerdlugssuaq glacier ice front positions, 1985-2018 |
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UK Polar Data Centre, Natural Environment Research Council, UK Research & Innovation |
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