Sounding and Imaging of Fast Flowing Glaciers and Ice-Sheet Margins
Konferenz: EUSAR 2012 - 9th European Conference on Synthetic Aperture Radar
23.04.2012 - 26.04.2012 in Nuremberg, Germany
Tagungsband: EUSAR 2012
Seiten: 4Sprache: EnglischTyp: PDF
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Autoren:
Gogineni, S.; Li, J.; Paden, J.; Smith, L.; Crowe, R.; Hoch, A.; Lewis, C.; Arnold, E.; Rodriguez-Morales, F.; Leuschen, C.; Hale, R.; Harish, A. R.; Braaten, D. (Center for Remote Sensing of Ice Sheets (CReSIS), The University of Kansas, 2335 Irving Hill Road, Lawrence, KS)
Inhalt:
Topography and basal conditions of ice-sheet margins are essential information for improving ice sheet models. Radars for sounding these areas must have extremely high sensitivity to overcome large attenuation losses and array processing capabilities to reduce surface clutter. We developed syntheticaperture radars (SAR) with large cross-track arrays for sounding ice-sheet margins both on long- and short-range aircraft. We sounded many key areas, including three major outlet glaciers — Jakobshavn, Helheim and Kangerdlussuaq — in Greenland and Antarctica. In this paper, we describe the radar systems and the data collected, present sample results, and discuss improvements being made to further enhance radar performance.