Blue ice in Antarctica: The gateway to travel in time and space ...
<!--!introduction!--> Antarctica has unique areas that expose blue ice, which contrast to most of the continent (~98%) that is covered by snow. Some of these blue ice areas (BIAs) contain meteorite concentrations and (very) old ice, making them very valuable for understanding our Solar System...
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ftdatacite:10.57757/iugg23-0611 2023-06-11T04:07:12+02:00 Blue ice in Antarctica: The gateway to travel in time and space ... Tollenaar, Veronica Zekollari, Harry Tuia, Devis Rußwurm, Marc Kellenberger, Benjamin Lhermitte, Stef Tax, David M.J. Debaille, Vinciane Goderis, Steven Claeys, Philippe Pattyn, Frank 2023 https://dx.doi.org/10.57757/iugg23-0611 https://gfzpublic.gfz-potsdam.de/pubman/item/item_5016864 unknown GFZ German Research Centre for Geosciences Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode cc-by-4.0 ConferencePaper Oral Article 2023 ftdatacite https://doi.org/10.57757/iugg23-0611 2023-06-01T11:22:27Z <!--!introduction!--> Antarctica has unique areas that expose blue ice, which contrast to most of the continent (~98%) that is covered by snow. Some of these blue ice areas (BIAs) contain meteorite concentrations and (very) old ice, making them very valuable for understanding our Solar System and the climate of the past, respectively. Meteorites and old ice become accessible through ablative processes that remove upper layers of ice and leave embedded material exposed on the surface. As a result, very old ice has been found in blue ice areas (>2 million years old), and >60% of meteorites retrieved on Earth come from Antarctica. However, not all BIAs act as figurative gateways to travel in time and space. Different processes need to combine favorably to find meteorites and old ice. To understand where to go in Antarctica, we accessed and combined various remote sensing data in a deep-learning framework to identify BIAs. By using a multi-sensor approach, we could also detect blue ice under ... : The 28th IUGG General Assembly (IUGG2023) (Berlin 2023) ... Conference Object Antarc* Antarctica DataCite Metadata Store (German National Library of Science and Technology) |
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<!--!introduction!--> Antarctica has unique areas that expose blue ice, which contrast to most of the continent (~98%) that is covered by snow. Some of these blue ice areas (BIAs) contain meteorite concentrations and (very) old ice, making them very valuable for understanding our Solar System and the climate of the past, respectively. Meteorites and old ice become accessible through ablative processes that remove upper layers of ice and leave embedded material exposed on the surface. As a result, very old ice has been found in blue ice areas (>2 million years old), and >60% of meteorites retrieved on Earth come from Antarctica. However, not all BIAs act as figurative gateways to travel in time and space. Different processes need to combine favorably to find meteorites and old ice. To understand where to go in Antarctica, we accessed and combined various remote sensing data in a deep-learning framework to identify BIAs. By using a multi-sensor approach, we could also detect blue ice under ... : The 28th IUGG General Assembly (IUGG2023) (Berlin 2023) ... |
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Tollenaar, Veronica Zekollari, Harry Tuia, Devis Rußwurm, Marc Kellenberger, Benjamin Lhermitte, Stef Tax, David M.J. Debaille, Vinciane Goderis, Steven Claeys, Philippe Pattyn, Frank |
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Tollenaar, Veronica Zekollari, Harry Tuia, Devis Rußwurm, Marc Kellenberger, Benjamin Lhermitte, Stef Tax, David M.J. Debaille, Vinciane Goderis, Steven Claeys, Philippe Pattyn, Frank Blue ice in Antarctica: The gateway to travel in time and space ... |
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Tollenaar, Veronica Zekollari, Harry Tuia, Devis Rußwurm, Marc Kellenberger, Benjamin Lhermitte, Stef Tax, David M.J. Debaille, Vinciane Goderis, Steven Claeys, Philippe Pattyn, Frank |
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Blue ice in Antarctica: The gateway to travel in time and space ... |
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Blue ice in Antarctica: The gateway to travel in time and space ... |
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Blue ice in Antarctica: The gateway to travel in time and space ... |
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