SEASONAL COMPARISON OF VELOCITY OF THE EASTERN TRIBUTARY GLACIERS, AMERY ICE SHELF, ANTARCTICA, USING SAR OFFSET TRACKING
Antarctica and Greenland are two major Earth’s continental ice shelves which play an important role in influencing Earth’s energy balance through their high albedo. The ice sheets comprise of grounded ice or the continental glaciers and their associated ice shelves. Surface velocity is an important...
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ftdoajarticles:oai:doaj.org/article:ac4dec7a9af64d669dcbc53c4193f67f 2023-05-15T13:22:06+02:00 SEASONAL COMPARISON OF VELOCITY OF THE EASTERN TRIBUTARY GLACIERS, AMERY ICE SHELF, ANTARCTICA, USING SAR OFFSET TRACKING S. D. Jawak S. Kumar A. J. Luis P. H. Pandit S. F. Wankhede T. S. Anirudh 2019-05-01T00:00:00Z https://doi.org/10.5194/isprs-annals-IV-2-W5-595-2019 https://doaj.org/article/ac4dec7a9af64d669dcbc53c4193f67f EN eng Copernicus Publications https://www.isprs-ann-photogramm-remote-sens-spatial-inf-sci.net/IV-2-W5/595/2019/isprs-annals-IV-2-W5-595-2019.pdf https://doaj.org/toc/2194-9042 https://doaj.org/toc/2194-9050 doi:10.5194/isprs-annals-IV-2-W5-595-2019 2194-9042 2194-9050 https://doaj.org/article/ac4dec7a9af64d669dcbc53c4193f67f ISPRS Annals of the Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing and Spatial Information Sciences, Vol IV-2-W5, Pp 595-600 (2019) Technology T Engineering (General). Civil engineering (General) TA1-2040 Applied optics. Photonics TA1501-1820 article 2019 ftdoajarticles https://doi.org/10.5194/isprs-annals-IV-2-W5-595-2019 2022-12-31T10:07:20Z Antarctica and Greenland are two major Earth’s continental ice shelves which play an important role in influencing Earth’s energy balance through their high albedo. The ice sheets comprise of grounded ice or the continental glaciers and their associated ice shelves. Surface velocity is an important parameter that needs to be monitored to understand the glacier dynamics. Marine terminating glaciers have higher velocity than land terminating glaciers. Therefore, ice shelves are generally observed to have higher velocity as compared to continental glaciers. The focus of this study is Amery ice shelf (AIS) which is the third largest ice shelf located in east Antarctica terminating into the Prydz Bay on the eastern Antarctica. The surface ice-flow velocity of AIS is very high compared to its surrounding glaciers which flows at a rate of 1400 m a −1 and drains about 8% of the Antarctic ice sheet. AIS is fed by different glaciers and ice streams at the head, as well as from the western and eastern side of the ice shelf before it terminates into the ocean. The primary objective of this study was to compute velocity of the eastern tributary glaciers of AIS using SAR from Sentinel-1 data. The secondary objective was to compare the winter and summer velocities of the glaciers for 2017–2018. The offset tracking method has been applied to the ground range detected (GRD) product obtained from Sentinel-1 satellite. This method is suitable for regions with higher glacier velocity where interferometry is generally affected by the loss of coherence. The offset tracking method works by tracking the features on the basis of another feature and calculates the offset between the two features in the images. Two tributary glaciers near the Clemence massif and another glacier near the Pickering Nunatak feed into this ice shelf from the eastern glacial basin region that drains ice from the American Highland, east Antarctica. The glaciers near the Clemence massif showed low annual velocity which ranged from 100 m a −1 at the head to ∼300 ... Article in Journal/Newspaper Amery Ice Shelf Antarc* Antarctic Antarctica East Antarctica glacier Greenland Ice Sheet Ice Shelf Ice Shelves Prydz Bay Directory of Open Access Journals: DOAJ Articles Antarctic The Antarctic East Antarctica Prydz Bay Greenland Amery ENVELOPE(-94.063,-94.063,56.565,56.565) Amery Ice Shelf ENVELOPE(71.000,71.000,-69.750,-69.750) Clemence Massif ENVELOPE(68.667,68.667,-72.200,-72.200) American Highland ENVELOPE(78.000,78.000,-72.500,-72.500) Pickering Nunatak ENVELOPE(70.783,70.783,-71.400,-71.400) ISPRS Annals of the Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing and Spatial Information Sciences IV-2/W5 595 600 |
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Antarctica and Greenland are two major Earth’s continental ice shelves which play an important role in influencing Earth’s energy balance through their high albedo. The ice sheets comprise of grounded ice or the continental glaciers and their associated ice shelves. Surface velocity is an important parameter that needs to be monitored to understand the glacier dynamics. Marine terminating glaciers have higher velocity than land terminating glaciers. Therefore, ice shelves are generally observed to have higher velocity as compared to continental glaciers. The focus of this study is Amery ice shelf (AIS) which is the third largest ice shelf located in east Antarctica terminating into the Prydz Bay on the eastern Antarctica. The surface ice-flow velocity of AIS is very high compared to its surrounding glaciers which flows at a rate of 1400 m a −1 and drains about 8% of the Antarctic ice sheet. AIS is fed by different glaciers and ice streams at the head, as well as from the western and eastern side of the ice shelf before it terminates into the ocean. The primary objective of this study was to compute velocity of the eastern tributary glaciers of AIS using SAR from Sentinel-1 data. The secondary objective was to compare the winter and summer velocities of the glaciers for 2017–2018. The offset tracking method has been applied to the ground range detected (GRD) product obtained from Sentinel-1 satellite. This method is suitable for regions with higher glacier velocity where interferometry is generally affected by the loss of coherence. The offset tracking method works by tracking the features on the basis of another feature and calculates the offset between the two features in the images. Two tributary glaciers near the Clemence massif and another glacier near the Pickering Nunatak feed into this ice shelf from the eastern glacial basin region that drains ice from the American Highland, east Antarctica. The glaciers near the Clemence massif showed low annual velocity which ranged from 100 m a −1 at the head to ∼300 ... |
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SEASONAL COMPARISON OF VELOCITY OF THE EASTERN TRIBUTARY GLACIERS, AMERY ICE SHELF, ANTARCTICA, USING SAR OFFSET TRACKING |
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SEASONAL COMPARISON OF VELOCITY OF THE EASTERN TRIBUTARY GLACIERS, AMERY ICE SHELF, ANTARCTICA, USING SAR OFFSET TRACKING |
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SEASONAL COMPARISON OF VELOCITY OF THE EASTERN TRIBUTARY GLACIERS, AMERY ICE SHELF, ANTARCTICA, USING SAR OFFSET TRACKING |
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SEASONAL COMPARISON OF VELOCITY OF THE EASTERN TRIBUTARY GLACIERS, AMERY ICE SHELF, ANTARCTICA, USING SAR OFFSET TRACKING |
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SEASONAL COMPARISON OF VELOCITY OF THE EASTERN TRIBUTARY GLACIERS, AMERY ICE SHELF, ANTARCTICA, USING SAR OFFSET TRACKING |
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seasonal comparison of velocity of the eastern tributary glaciers, amery ice shelf, antarctica, using sar offset tracking |
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