Current status of Landsat program, science, and applications

MA Wulder, TR Loveland, DP Roy, CJ Crawford… - Remote sensing of …, 2019 - Elsevier
Formal planning and development of what became the first Landsat satellite commenced
over 50 years ago in 1967. Now, having collected earth observation data for well over four …

An automated, open-source pipeline for mass production of digital elevation models (DEMs) from very-high-resolution commercial stereo satellite imagery

DE Shean, O Alexandrov, ZM Moratto, BE Smith… - ISPRS Journal of …, 2016 - Elsevier
We adapted the automated, open source NASA Ames Stereo Pipeline (ASP) to generate
digital elevation models (DEMs) and orthoimages from very-high-resolution (VHR) …

Recent understanding of Antarctic supraglacial lakes using satellite remote sensing

JF Arthur, C Stokes, SSR Jamieson… - Progress in …, 2020 - journals.sagepub.com
Supraglacial lakes (SGLs) are now known to be widespread in Antarctica, where they
represent an important component of ice sheet mass balance. This paper reviews how …

Widespread movement of meltwater onto and across Antarctic ice shelves

J Kingslake, JC Ely, I Das, RE Bell - Nature, 2017 - nature.com
Surface meltwater drains across ice sheets, forming melt ponds that can trigger ice-shelf
collapse,, acceleration of grounded ice flow and increased sea-level rise,,. Numerical …

Antarctic ice shelf potentially stabilized by export of meltwater in surface river

RE Bell, W Chu, J Kingslake, I Das, M Tedesco… - Nature, 2017 - nature.com
Meltwater stored in ponds and crevasses can weaken and fracture ice shelves, triggering
their rapid disintegration. This ice-shelf collapse results in an increased flux of ice from …

The 32-year record-high surface melt in 2019/2020 on the northern George VI Ice Shelf, Antarctic Peninsula

AF Banwell, RT Datta, RL Dell, M Moussavi… - The …, 2021 - tc.copernicus.org
In the 2019/2020 austral summer, the surface melt duration and extent on the northern
George VI Ice Shelf (GVIIS) was exceptional compared to the 31 previous summers of …

Antarctic supraglacial lake detection using Landsat 8 and Sentinel-2 imagery: Towards continental generation of lake volumes

M Moussavi, A Pope, ARW Halberstadt, LD Trusel… - Remote Sensing, 2020 - mdpi.com
Melt and supraglacial lakes are precursors to ice shelf collapse and subsequent accelerated
ice sheet mass loss. We used data from the Landsat 8 and Sentinel-2 satellites to develop a …

Widespread distribution of supraglacial lakes around the margin of the East Antarctic Ice Sheet

CR Stokes, JE Sanderson, BWJ Miles… - Scientific reports, 2019 - nature.com
Supraglacial lakes are important to ice sheet mass balance because their development and
drainage has been linked to changes in ice flow velocity and ice shelf disintegration …

Improved bathymetric map** of coastal and lake environments using Sentinel-2 and Landsat-8 images

AP Yunus, J Dou, X Song, R Avtar - Sensors, 2019 - mdpi.com
The bathymetry of nearshore coastal environments and lakes is constantly reworking
because of the change in the patterns of energy dispersal and related sediment transport …

ICESat‐2 meltwater depth estimates: application to surface melt on amery ice shelf, East Antarctica

HA Fricker, P Arndt, KM Brunt, RT Datta… - Geophysical …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Surface melting occurs during summer on the Antarctic and Greenland ice sheets, but the
volume of stored surface meltwater has been difficult to quantify due to a lack of accurate …