Interferometric Synthetic Aperture Radar (InSAR) for Fine-resolution Basal Ice Sheet Imaging

• Main Author: Blake, William Arthur
• Other Authors: Allen, Christopher, Leuschen, Carl, Blunt, Shannon, Prescott, Glenn, Braaten, David
• Format: Doctoral or Postdoctoral Thesis
• Language: English
• Published: University of Kansas 2010
• Subjects: Electronics and electrical engineering; Remote sensing; Climate change; Greenland; Ice sheets; Insar; Sar; Ice Sheet
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/1808/6757; http://dissertations.umi.com/ku:11127

This dissertation work was to examine the feasibility of InSAR through the ice sheets to create a fine resolution basal topography map and extraction of basal composition. InSAR was shown to be possible through the ice sheet, using data collected by the MCRDS radar around the NEEM drill site. Reflectivity maps were generated leading to the possibility of extracting useful basal composition data. Extraction of basal composition information was examined including estimating the roughness of basal topography and removing the effects of local slope.