Efficient Location and Extraction of the Iceberg Calved Areas of the Antarctic Ice Shelves
Continuous, rapid, and precise monitoring of calving events contributes to an in-depth understanding of calving mechanisms, which have the potential to cause significant mass loss from the Antarctic ice sheet. The difficulties in the precise monitoring of iceberg calving lie with the coexistence of...
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ftdoajarticles:oai:doaj.org/article:2f8b28055eab4de7a6e7f3d1091af228 2023-05-15T13:52:05+02:00 Efficient Location and Extraction of the Iceberg Calved Areas of the Antarctic Ice Shelves Mengzhen Qi Yan Liu Yijing Lin Fengming Hui Teng Li Xiao Cheng 2020-08-01T00:00:00Z https://doi.org/10.3390/rs12162658 https://doaj.org/article/2f8b28055eab4de7a6e7f3d1091af228 EN eng MDPI AG https://www.mdpi.com/2072-4292/12/16/2658 https://doaj.org/toc/2072-4292 doi:10.3390/rs12162658 2072-4292 https://doaj.org/article/2f8b28055eab4de7a6e7f3d1091af228 Remote Sensing, Vol 12, Iss 2658, p 2658 (2020) Antarctica ice shelves iceberg calving coastline ice velocity remote sensing Science Q article 2020 ftdoajarticles https://doi.org/10.3390/rs12162658 2022-12-31T15:17:33Z Continuous, rapid, and precise monitoring of calving events contributes to an in-depth understanding of calving mechanisms, which have the potential to cause significant mass loss from the Antarctic ice sheet. The difficulties in the precise monitoring of iceberg calving lie with the coexistence of ice shelf advances and calving. The manual location of iceberg calving is time-consuming and painstaking, while achieving precise extraction has mostly relied on the surface textural characteristics of the ice shelves and the quality of the images. Here, we propose a new and efficient method of separating the expansion and calving processes of ice shelves. We visualized the extension process by simulating a new coastline, based on the ice velocity, and detected the calved area using the simulated coastline and single-temporal post-calving images. We extensively tested the validity of this method by extracting four annual calving datasets (from August 2015 to August 2019) from the Sentinel-1 synthetic aperture radar mosaic of the Antarctic coastline. A total of 2032 annual Antarctic calving events were detected, with areas ranging from 0.05 km 2 to 6141.0 km 2 , occurring on almost every Antarctic ice shelf. The extraction accuracy of the calved area depends on the positioning accuracy of the simulated coastline and the spatial resolution of the images. The positioning error of the simulated coastline is less than one pixel, and the determined minimum valid extraction area is 0.05 km 2 , when based on 75 m resolution images. Our method effectively avoids repetition and omission errors during the calved area extraction process. Furthermore, its efficiency is not affected by the surface textural characteristics of the calving fronts and the various changes in the frontal edge velocity, which makes it fully applicable to the rapid and accurate extraction of different calving types. Article in Journal/Newspaper Antarc* Antarctic Antarctica Ice Sheet Ice Shelf Ice Shelves Iceberg* Directory of Open Access Journals: DOAJ Articles Antarctic The Antarctic The Sentinel ENVELOPE(73.317,73.317,-52.983,-52.983) Remote Sensing 12 16 2658 |
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Continuous, rapid, and precise monitoring of calving events contributes to an in-depth understanding of calving mechanisms, which have the potential to cause significant mass loss from the Antarctic ice sheet. The difficulties in the precise monitoring of iceberg calving lie with the coexistence of ice shelf advances and calving. The manual location of iceberg calving is time-consuming and painstaking, while achieving precise extraction has mostly relied on the surface textural characteristics of the ice shelves and the quality of the images. Here, we propose a new and efficient method of separating the expansion and calving processes of ice shelves. We visualized the extension process by simulating a new coastline, based on the ice velocity, and detected the calved area using the simulated coastline and single-temporal post-calving images. We extensively tested the validity of this method by extracting four annual calving datasets (from August 2015 to August 2019) from the Sentinel-1 synthetic aperture radar mosaic of the Antarctic coastline. A total of 2032 annual Antarctic calving events were detected, with areas ranging from 0.05 km 2 to 6141.0 km 2 , occurring on almost every Antarctic ice shelf. The extraction accuracy of the calved area depends on the positioning accuracy of the simulated coastline and the spatial resolution of the images. The positioning error of the simulated coastline is less than one pixel, and the determined minimum valid extraction area is 0.05 km 2 , when based on 75 m resolution images. Our method effectively avoids repetition and omission errors during the calved area extraction process. Furthermore, its efficiency is not affected by the surface textural characteristics of the calving fronts and the various changes in the frontal edge velocity, which makes it fully applicable to the rapid and accurate extraction of different calving types. |
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Efficient Location and Extraction of the Iceberg Calved Areas of the Antarctic Ice Shelves |
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Efficient Location and Extraction of the Iceberg Calved Areas of the Antarctic Ice Shelves |
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Efficient Location and Extraction of the Iceberg Calved Areas of the Antarctic Ice Shelves |
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Efficient Location and Extraction of the Iceberg Calved Areas of the Antarctic Ice Shelves |
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Efficient Location and Extraction of the Iceberg Calved Areas of the Antarctic Ice Shelves |
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efficient location and extraction of the iceberg calved areas of the antarctic ice shelves |
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