TRACKING OF ANTARCTIC TABULAR ICEBERGS USING PASSIVE MICROWAVE RADIOMETRY

• Main Authors: PHILLIPS, HA, LAXON, SW
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: unknown
• Published: TAYLOR & FRANCIS LTD LONDON 1995
• Subjects: SOUTHERN-OCEAN; Antarctic; Larsen Ice Shelf; Southern Ocean; Antarc*; Antarctica; Ice Shelf; Iceberg*
• Online Access: http://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/154937/

Passive microwave images of Antarctica from the Special Sensor Microwave Imager (SSM/I) are used to track two giant tabular icebergs that originated from the Larsen ice shelf in 1986. Since microwave radiation is relatively insensitive to weather and unaffected by lighting conditions, the SSM/I inst...