Automated detection and tracking of crevasses on a calving glacier from TerraSAR-X imagery

• Main Author: Kinnear, Duncan A.
• Other Authors: Hulton, Nicholas R. J.
• Format: Master Thesis
• Language: English
• Published: The University of Edinburgh 2015
• Subjects: Automated; Crevasse Detection; Feature Tracking; Calving Glacier; Tunabreen; Svalbard; TerraSAR-X; MSc Geographical Information Science; GIS; glacier
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/1842/11806

The formation and development of crevasses provides great insight into the overall dynamics of a calving glacier, in particular because the formation of crevasses reflects glacier stretching, the same process that leads to calving. If a crevasse opens to the water-line then a calving event normally...