Instruments and Methods: A Low-Cost Glacier-Mapping System

• Main Authors: Christensen, Erik Lintz, Reeh, Niels, Forsberg, René, Jørgensen, Jørn Hjelm, Skou, Niels, Woelders, Kim
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: 2000
• Subjects: Greenland; Nioghalvfjerdsfjorden; glacier; Journal of Glaciology
• Online Access: https://orbit.dtu.dk/en/publications/de15e169-d787-4eab-a774-d1e51a34fbea

An old portable 60 MHz radar has been upgraded with a new digital data-processing and acquisition system and a new antenna construction enabling a fast and low-cost installation on a Twin Otter aircraft. Augmented by a laser altimeter and kinematic global positioning system (GPS), the system has the...