Independent Digital Elevation Model of Antarctica from GNSS-R data from TechDemoSat-1 - VERSION 2.0

• Main Author: Cartwright, Jessica
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: Natural Environment Research Council 2020
• Subjects: Antarctic; The Antarctic; South Pole; Cartwright; Antarc*; Antarctica; Ice Sheet; South pole
• Online Access: https://eprints.soton.ac.uk/448703/

SGR-ReSI, TechDemoSat-1,Gridded group delay altimetry from TechDemoSat-1's GNSS-R data collected between September 2014 and December 2018. For full details see Cartwright et al., 2020.,Improved Digital Elevation Model (DEM) of the Antarctic Ice Sheet derived from Global Navigation Satellite Systems-Reflectometry (GNSS-R). This builds on a previous study (Cartwright et al., 2018) using GNSS-R to derive an Antarctic DEM but uses improved processing and an additional 13 months of measurements. A median bias of under 10 m and root-mean-square (RMS) errors of under 53 m are obtained, as compared to existing DEMs. Funding was provided by NERC grant NE/L002531/1.,A median bias of under 10 m and root-mean-square (RMS) errors of under 53 m are obtained, as compared to existing DEMs. This represents, compared to the earlier study, a halving of the median bias to 9 m, an improvement in coverage of 18 %, and a four times higher spatial resolution (now gridded at 25 km). These are the first published satellite altimetry measurements of the region surrounding the South Pole. Comparisons south of 88° S yield RMS errors of less than 33 m when compared to NASA's Operation IceBridge measurements.