Toward Monitoring Surface and Subsurface Lakes on the Greenland Ice Sheet Using Sentinel-1 SAR and Landsat-8 OLI Imagery

• Main Authors: Miles, KE, Willis, IC, Benedek, CL, Williamson, AG, Tedesco, M
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Frontiers 2017
• Subjects: Greenland; hydrology; supraglacial lakes; drainage; satellite remote sensing; Sentinel-1; Landsat-8; The Sentinel; Ice Sheet
• Online Access: https://www.repository.cam.ac.uk/handle/1810/265785; https://doi.org/10.17863/CAM.11178

Supraglacial lakes are an important component of the Greenland Ice Sheet's mass balance and hydrology, with their drainage affecting ice dynamics. This study uses imagery from the recently launched Sentinel-1A Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) satellite to investigate supraglacial lakes in West Gr...