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Motion of the Lambert Glacier estimated by using differential Interferometric Synthetic Aperture Radar

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, , Citation Shuang Liu et al 2014 IOP Conf. Ser.: Earth Environ. Sci. 17 012139 DOI 10.1088/1755-1315/17/1/012139

1755-1315/17/1/012139

Abstract

Interferometric Synthetic Aperture Radar (InSAR) is one of the most promising remote sensing technologies and has been widely applied in constructing topographic information and estimating the deformation of the Earth's surface. Ice velocity is an important parameter for calculating the mass balance and modelling ice shelve dynamics. Ice velocity is also an important indicator for climate changes. Therefore, it plays an important role in studying the global climate change and global sea level rise. In this paper, the ERS-1/2 tandem data and the ASTER GDEM are combined together to obtained the deformation in line of sight by using the differential Interferometric SAR for the Lambert Amery glacier in Antarctica. Then the surface parallel assumption is adopted in order to achieve the ice flow velocity. The results showed that ice velocity would be increased along the Lambert glacier; the maximum ice velocity would be reach about 450m/year in the study area.

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