Intercomparison and Validation of SAR-Based Ice Velocity Measurement Techniques within the Greenland Ice Sheet CCI Project
Ice velocity is one of the products associated with the Ice Sheets Essential Climate Variable. This paper describes the intercomparison and validation of ice-velocity measurements carried out by several international research groups within the European Space Agency Greenland Ice Sheet Climate Change...
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ftmit:oai:dspace.mit.edu:1721.1/116583 2023-06-11T04:12:08+02:00 Intercomparison and Validation of SAR-Based Ice Velocity Measurement Techniques within the Greenland Ice Sheet CCI Project Merryman Boncori, John Peter Langer Andersen, Morten Dall, Jørgen Kusk, Anders Kamstra, Martijn Bechor, Noa Bevan, Suzanne Bignami, Christian Gourmelen, Noel Joughin, Ian Jung, Hyung-Sup Luckman, Adrian Mouginot, Jeremie Neelmeijer, Julia Rignot, Eric Scharrer, Kilian Nagler, Thomas Scheuchl, Bernd Strozzi, Tazio Boncori, John Peter Merryman Andersen, Morten Langer Andersen, Signe Bech Bechor Ben Dov, Noah Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Earth Resources Laboratory Bechor Ben Dov, Noah 2018-06-25T07:43:17Z application/pdf http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/116583 unknown Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute (MDPI) http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/rs10060929 Remote Sensing 2072-4292 http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/116583 Boncori, John Peter Merryman et al. "Intercomparison and Validation of SAR-Based Ice Velocity Measurement Techniques within the Greenland Ice Sheet CCI Project." Remote Sensing 10, 6 (June 2018): 929 © 2018 The Authors Creative Commons Attribution http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute Article http://purl.org/eprint/type/JournalArticle 2018 ftmit https://doi.org/10.3390/rs10060929 2023-05-29T08:20:13Z Ice velocity is one of the products associated with the Ice Sheets Essential Climate Variable. This paper describes the intercomparison and validation of ice-velocity measurements carried out by several international research groups within the European Space Agency Greenland Ice Sheet Climate Change Initiative project, based on space-borne Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) data. The goal of this activity was to survey the best SAR-based measurement and error characterization approaches currently in practice. To this end, four experiments were carried out, related to different processing techniques and scenarios, namely differential SAR interferometry, multi aperture SAR interferometry and offset-tracking of incoherent as well as of partially-coherent data. For each task, participants were provided with common datasets covering areas located on the Greenland ice-sheet margin and asked to provide mean velocity maps, quality characterization and a description of processing algorithms and parameters. The results were then intercompared and validated against GPS data, revealing in several cases significant differences in terms of coverage and accuracy. The algorithmic steps and parameters influencing the coverage, accuracy and spatial resolution of the measurements are discussed in detail for each technique, as well as the consistency between quality parameters and validation results. This allows several recommendations to be formulated, in particular concerning procedures which can reduce the impact of analyst decisions, and which are often found to be the cause of sub-optimal algorithm performance. Keywords: ice velocity; Synthetic Aperture Radar; Greenland ice sheet; Climate Change Initiative Article in Journal/Newspaper Greenland Ice Sheet DSpace@MIT (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) Greenland Remote Sensing 10 6 929 |
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Ice velocity is one of the products associated with the Ice Sheets Essential Climate Variable. This paper describes the intercomparison and validation of ice-velocity measurements carried out by several international research groups within the European Space Agency Greenland Ice Sheet Climate Change Initiative project, based on space-borne Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) data. The goal of this activity was to survey the best SAR-based measurement and error characterization approaches currently in practice. To this end, four experiments were carried out, related to different processing techniques and scenarios, namely differential SAR interferometry, multi aperture SAR interferometry and offset-tracking of incoherent as well as of partially-coherent data. For each task, participants were provided with common datasets covering areas located on the Greenland ice-sheet margin and asked to provide mean velocity maps, quality characterization and a description of processing algorithms and parameters. The results were then intercompared and validated against GPS data, revealing in several cases significant differences in terms of coverage and accuracy. The algorithmic steps and parameters influencing the coverage, accuracy and spatial resolution of the measurements are discussed in detail for each technique, as well as the consistency between quality parameters and validation results. This allows several recommendations to be formulated, in particular concerning procedures which can reduce the impact of analyst decisions, and which are often found to be the cause of sub-optimal algorithm performance. Keywords: ice velocity; Synthetic Aperture Radar; Greenland ice sheet; Climate Change Initiative |
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Merryman Boncori, John Peter Langer Andersen, Morten Dall, Jørgen Kusk, Anders Kamstra, Martijn Bechor, Noa Bevan, Suzanne Bignami, Christian Gourmelen, Noel Joughin, Ian Jung, Hyung-Sup Luckman, Adrian Mouginot, Jeremie Neelmeijer, Julia Rignot, Eric Scharrer, Kilian Nagler, Thomas Scheuchl, Bernd Strozzi, Tazio Boncori, John Peter Merryman Andersen, Morten Langer Andersen, Signe Bech Bechor Ben Dov, Noah |
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Merryman Boncori, John Peter Langer Andersen, Morten Dall, Jørgen Kusk, Anders Kamstra, Martijn Bechor, Noa Bevan, Suzanne Bignami, Christian Gourmelen, Noel Joughin, Ian Jung, Hyung-Sup Luckman, Adrian Mouginot, Jeremie Neelmeijer, Julia Rignot, Eric Scharrer, Kilian Nagler, Thomas Scheuchl, Bernd Strozzi, Tazio Boncori, John Peter Merryman Andersen, Morten Langer Andersen, Signe Bech Bechor Ben Dov, Noah Intercomparison and Validation of SAR-Based Ice Velocity Measurement Techniques within the Greenland Ice Sheet CCI Project |
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Merryman Boncori, John Peter Langer Andersen, Morten Dall, Jørgen Kusk, Anders Kamstra, Martijn Bechor, Noa Bevan, Suzanne Bignami, Christian Gourmelen, Noel Joughin, Ian Jung, Hyung-Sup Luckman, Adrian Mouginot, Jeremie Neelmeijer, Julia Rignot, Eric Scharrer, Kilian Nagler, Thomas Scheuchl, Bernd Strozzi, Tazio Boncori, John Peter Merryman Andersen, Morten Langer Andersen, Signe Bech Bechor Ben Dov, Noah |
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Intercomparison and Validation of SAR-Based Ice Velocity Measurement Techniques within the Greenland Ice Sheet CCI Project |
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Intercomparison and Validation of SAR-Based Ice Velocity Measurement Techniques within the Greenland Ice Sheet CCI Project |
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Intercomparison and Validation of SAR-Based Ice Velocity Measurement Techniques within the Greenland Ice Sheet CCI Project |
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Intercomparison and Validation of SAR-Based Ice Velocity Measurement Techniques within the Greenland Ice Sheet CCI Project |
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Intercomparison and Validation of SAR-Based Ice Velocity Measurement Techniques within the Greenland Ice Sheet CCI Project |
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intercomparison and validation of sar-based ice velocity measurement techniques within the greenland ice sheet cci project |
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http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/rs10060929 Remote Sensing 2072-4292 http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/116583 Boncori, John Peter Merryman et al. "Intercomparison and Validation of SAR-Based Ice Velocity Measurement Techniques within the Greenland Ice Sheet CCI Project." Remote Sensing 10, 6 (June 2018): 929 © 2018 The Authors |
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