Title :
Monitoring of the changes of glacier and ice sheet on polar region by L-band SAR data
Author :
Yamanokuchi, Tsutomu ; Doi, Kohei ; Nakamura, Kentaro ; Aoki, Shigehisa ; Shibuya, Kazuhiko
Author_Institution :
Remote Sensing Technol. Center of Japan (RESTEC), Tsukuba, Japan
Abstract :
The global warming may affect the cryospheric environment and many reports showed the retreat of glaciers, thinning of ice shelves and ice sheet on Antarctica. Retreat of mountain glaciers also might be explained in the same context. This paper aims to show how useful the ALOS / PALSAR data for cryospheric applications through the case study of two typical areas, one is rock glacier monitoring on Argentine Andes and the other is ice sheet on Dronning Maud Land, Antarctica.
Keywords :
glaciology; remote sensing by radar; synthetic aperture radar; ALOS data; Antarctica; Argentine Andes; Dronning Maud Land; L-band SAR data; PALSAR data; cryospheric environment; glacier change monitoring; global warming; ice sheet change monitoring; ice shelves; ice shelves thinning; mountain glacier retreat; polar region; rock glacier monitoring; Antarctica; Data mining; Decorrelation; Grounding; Ice; Satellites; Synthetic aperture radar;
Conference_Titel :
Synthetic Aperture Radar (APSAR), 2013 Asia-Pacific Conference on
Conference_Location :
Tsukuba
