Quantifying Changes in Extent and Velocity of the Hornbreen/Hambergbreen Glacial System (SW, Spitsbergen) Based on Timeseries of Multispectral Satellite Imagery

• Published in: Remote Sensing
• Main Authors: Dawid Saferna, Małgorzata Błaszczyk, Mariusz Grabiec, Bogdan Gądek
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute 2023
• Subjects: glacier velocity; Hornsund; Hornbreen; Hambergbreen; feature tracking; satellite imagery; radiometric resolution; Arctic; Svalbard; Sørkapp Land; glacier; Spitsbergen
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.3390/rs15143529

This study focuses on the Hornsund region in Svalbard, where the temperature has risen by 1.14 °C per decade, six times faster than the global average. The accelerating temperature rise in the Arctic has had significant impacts on the Svalbard glaciers, including the Hornbreen–Hambergbreen system (H...