Antarctica: Measuring glacier velocity from satellite images
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By: Baerbel K. Lucchitta and H.M. Ferguson
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Abstract
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.
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Lucchitta, B.K., and Ferguson, H., 1986, Antarctica: Measuring glacier velocity from satellite images: Science, v. 234, no. 4780, p. 1105-1108, https://doi.org/10.1126/science.234.4780.1105.
| Publication type | Article |
|---|---|
| Publication Subtype | Journal Article |
| Title | Antarctica: Measuring glacier velocity from satellite images |
| Series title | Science |
| DOI | 10.1126/science.234.4780.1105 |
| Volume | 234 |
| Issue | 4780 |
| Year Published | 1986 |
| Language | English |
| Contributing office(s) | Astrogeology Science Center |
| Description | 4 p. |
| Larger Work Type | Article |
| Larger Work Subtype | Journal Article |
| Larger Work Title | Science |
| First page | 1105 |
| Last page | 1108 |