Recent high-resolution Antarctic ice velocity maps reveal increased mass loss in Wilkes Land, East Antarctica

• Published in: Scientific Reports
• Main Authors: Shen, Qiang, Wang, Hansheng, Shum, C. K., Jiang, Liming, Hsu, Hou Tse, Dong, Jinglong
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: Nature Publishing Group UK 2018
• Subjects: Article; Antarctic; Antarctic Peninsula; East Antarctic Ice Sheet; East Antarctica; Indian; Southern Ocean; The Antarctic; West Antarctica; Wilkes Land; Antarc*; Antarctica; Ice Sheet
• Online Access: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5852037/; http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29540750; https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-018-22765-0

We constructed Antarctic ice velocity maps from Landsat 8 images for the years 2014 and 2015 at a high spatial resolution (100 m). These maps were assembled from 10,690 scenes of displacement vectors inferred from more than 10,000 optical images acquired from December 2013 through March 2016. We est...