Monitoring glacial lake outburst flood susceptibility using Sentinel-1 SAR data, Google Earth Engine, and persistent scatterer interferometry

• Published in: Remote Sensing of Environment
• Main Authors: Wangchuk, Sonam, Bolch, Tobias, Robson, Benjamin Aubrey
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Elsevier 2022
• Subjects: Glacial Lake; Psi; Ice; permafrost
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/11250/2997557; https://doi.org/10.1016/j.rse.2022.112910

Continuous monitoring of glacial lakes, their parent glaciers and their surroundings is crucial because possible outbursts of these lakes pose a serious hazard to downstream areas. Ongoing climate change increases the risk of this hazard globally due to recession of glaciers leading to formation and...