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Title: Antarctica: measuring glacier velocity from satellite images

Journal Article · · Science (Washington, D.C.); (United States)

Many Landsat images of Antarctica show distinctive flow and crevasse features in the floating part of ice streams and outlet glaciers immediately below their grounding zones. Some of the features, which move with the glacier or ice stream, remain visible over many years and thus allow time-lapse measurements of ice velocities. Measurements taken from Landsat images of features on Byrd Glacier agree well with detailed ground and aerial observations. The satellite-image technique thus offers a rapid and cost-effective method of obtaining average velocities, to a first order of accuracy, of many ice streams and outlet glaciers near their termini.

OSTI ID:
6896753
Journal Information:
Science (Washington, D.C.); (United States), Vol. 234
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English