GROUNDING LINES DETECTING USING LANDSAT8 OLI AND CRYOSAT-2 DATA FUSION

• Published in: The International Archives of the Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing and Spatial Information Sciences
• Main Authors: F. Li, Y. Guo, Y. Zhang, S. Zhang
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Copernicus Publications 2018
• Subjects: Technology; T; Engineering (General). Civil engineering (General); TA1-2040; Applied optics. Photonics; TA1501-1820; Antarctic; Moa; The Antarctic; Antarc*; Antarctica; Ice Sheet; Ice Shelf; Ice Shelves
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.5194/isprs-archives-XLII-3-795-2018; https://doaj.org/article/d7f0a25099034d4d9a16113b759c3401

The grounding zone is the region where ice transitions from grounded ice sheet to freely floating ice shelf, grounding lines are actually more of a zone, typically over several kilometers. The mass loss from Antarctica is strongly linked to changes in the ice shelves and their grounding lines, since...