Antarctic Supraglacial Lake Detection Using Landsat 8 and Sentinel-2 Imagery: Towards Continental Generation of Lake Volumes

• Published in: Remote Sensing
• Main Authors: Mahsa Moussavi, Allen Pope, Anna Ruth W. Halberstadt, Luke D. Trusel, Leanne Cioffi, Waleed Abdalati
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: MDPI AG 2020
• Subjects: supraglacial lake; antarctica; meltwater volumes; ice shelf stability; supervised classification; satellite imagery; landsat 8; sentinel-2; Science; Q; Antarctic; The Antarctic; Antarctic Peninsula; Amery; Amery Ice Shelf; Riiser-Larsen; Roi Baudouin; Nivlisen; Antarc*; Antarctica; Ice Sheet; Ice Shelf; Ice Shelves
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.3390/rs12010134; https://doaj.org/article/3a5bf4507b1c4068b2751ce718231ac8

Melt and supraglacial lakes are precursors to ice shelf collapse and subsequent accelerated ice sheet mass loss. We used data from the Landsat 8 and Sentinel-2 satellites to develop a threshold-based method for detection of lakes found on the Antarctic ice shelves, calculate their depths and thus th...