A Comparison and Review of Surface Detection Methods Using MBL, MABEL, and ICESat-2 Photon-Counting Laser Altimetry Data

• Published in: IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and Remote Sensing
• Main Authors: Huan Xie, Qi Xu, Dan Ye, Jianghao Jia, Yuan Sun, Peiqi Huang, Ming Li, Shijie Liu, Feng Xie, Xiaolong Hao, Xiaohua Tong
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: IEEE 2021
• Subjects: Ice; Cloud; and Land Elevation Satellite-2 (ICESat-2); laser altimeter; MABEL; photon-counting; Ocean engineering; TC1501-1800; Geophysics. Cosmic physics; QC801-809; Mabel; Sea ice
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.1109/JSTARS.2021.3094195; https://doaj.org/article/38656ef343944d0ea6f273f2b11b9d82

The Ice, Cloud, and Land Elevation Satellite-2 (ICESat-2) was launched on September 15, 2018. It is the first photon-counting laser altimeter satellite, which is of great significance for the research into laser altimetry. ICESat-2 is, however, highly sensitive and susceptible to environmental influ...