Autonomous phase-sensitive radio echo sounder for monitoring and imaging Antarctic ice shelves

• Main Authors: Lok, L.B., Brennan, P.V., Ash, M., Nicholls, K.W.
• Format: Book Part
• Language: unknown
• Published: IEEE 2015
• Subjects: Antarctic; West Antarctica; Pine Island Glacier; Antarc*; Antarctica; British Antarctic Survey; Ice Shelf; Ice Shelves; Pine Island
• Online Access: http://nora.nerc.ac.uk/id/eprint/514366/; http://toc.proceedings.com/27982webtoc.pdf

A low-power, autonomous phase-sensitive radioecho sounder (ApRES) radar system has been developed at University College London, in collaboration with the British Antarctic Survey, for monitoring and imaging Antarctic ice shelves. The system is ground-based and uses a direct digital synthesizer to im...