On the detection of crevasses in glacial ice with synthetic-aperture radar.

• Main Author: Brock, Billy C.
• Other Authors: United States. Department of Energy.
• Format: Report
• Language: English
• Published: Sandia National Laboratories 2010
• Subjects: Dielectric Materials; 36 Materials Science; Snow; Radar; Synthetic Aperture Radar-Image Quality; Viability Glaciers-Forecasting; Fractals; Detection; Glaciers; Scattering; Glaciers-Forecasting; Permittivity; Antarctic; Sastrugi; Antarc*
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.2172/989382; https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc1013276/

The intent of this study is to provide an analysis of the scattering from a crevasse in Antarctic ice, utilizing a physics-based model for the scattering process. Of primary interest is a crevasse covered with a snow bridge, which makes the crevasse undetectable in visible-light images. It is demons...