MONITORING SUB-WEEKLY EVOLUTION OF SURFACE VELOCITY AND ELEVATION FOR A HIGH-LATITUDE SURGING GLACIER USING SENTINEL-2

Currently, the Sentinel-2 twin satellite constellation of the Copernicus program is in operational mode and generates high repeat acquisitions at high-latitudes during polar day. These pushbroom satellites have a large field-of-view and are therefore ideal for simultaneous extraction of glacier disp...

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Bibliographic Details
Published in:The International Archives of the Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing and Spatial Information Sciences
Main Authors: B. Altena, O. N. Haga, C. Nuth, A. Kääb
Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
Language:English
Published: Copernicus Publications 2019
Subjects:
Technology
T
Engineering (General). Civil engineering (General)
TA1-2040
Applied optics. Photonics
TA1501-1820
Svalbard
The Sentinel
Negribreen
glacier
Tidewater
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.5194/isprs-archives-XLII-2-W13-1723-2019
https://doaj.org/article/54d398dc5a634b95983d8f70db2ded17
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Summary:Currently, the Sentinel-2 twin satellite constellation of the Copernicus program is in operational mode and generates high repeat acquisitions at high-latitudes during polar day. These pushbroom satellites have a large field-of-view and are therefore ideal for simultaneous extraction of glacier displacement and elevation data. In this study we showcase the capabilities of this system set-up by generating time-series of glacier flow and elevation change over Negribreen, a tidewater glacier in Svalbard which nowadays is in its surge phase.

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