Remote-sensing Resources for Monitoring Glacier Fluctuations on Axel Heiberg Island

• Published in: ARCTIC
• Main Authors: Cogley, J. Graham, Adams, W.P.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: The Arctic Institute of North America 2000
• Subjects: Axel Heiberg Island; glacier monitoring; remote sensing; terminus fluctuations; télédétection; surveillance des glaciers; déplacements du front des glaciers; île Axel Heiberg; Arctic; Canada; Heiberg; Thompson Glacier; White Glacier; Arctique*; glacier*; Île Axel Heiberg
• Online Access: https://journalhosting.ucalgary.ca/index.php/arctic/article/view/63913

We document the abundant resources available for the photographic reconstruction of glacier terminus positions in the Canadian High Arctic, with particular reference to Axel Heiberg Island. Early terrestrial photographs may yet be discovered in the archives of explorers, but systematic photography o...