Efficient Location and Extraction of the Iceberg Calved Areas of the Antarctic Ice Shelves

• Published in: Remote Sensing
• Main Authors: Mengzhen Qi, Yan Liu, Yijing Lin, Fengming Hui, Teng Li, Xiao Cheng
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute 2020
• Subjects: Antarctica; ice shelves; iceberg calving; coastline; ice velocity; remote sensing; Antarctic; The Antarctic; The Sentinel; Antarc*; Ice Sheet; Ice Shelf; Ice Shelves; Iceberg*
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.3390/rs12162658

Continuous, rapid, and precise monitoring of calving events contributes to an in-depth understanding of calving mechanisms, which have the potential to cause significant mass loss from the Antarctic ice sheet. The difficulties in the precise monitoring of iceberg calving lie with the coexistence of...