Current and Near-Term Earth-Observing Environmental Satellites, Their Missions, Characteristics, Instruments, and Applications

SL Ustin, EMP Middleton - Sensors, 2024‏ - mdpi.com
Among the essential tools to address global environmental information requirements are the
Earth-Observing (EO) satellites with free and open data access. This paper reviews those …

Remote sensing of surface melt on Antarctica: Opportunities and challenges

S de Roda Husman, Z Hu, B Wouters… - IEEE Journal of …, 2022‏ - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Surface melt is an important driver of ice shelf disintegration and its consequent mass loss
over the Antarctic Ice Sheet. Monitoring surface melt using satellite remote sensing can …

[HTML][HTML] 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 …

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 …

Greenland-wide inventory of ice marginal lakes using a multi-method approach

P How, A Messerli, E Mätzler, M Santoro… - Scientific Reports, 2021‏ - nature.com
Ice marginal lakes are a dynamic component of terrestrial meltwater storage at the margin of
the Greenland Ice Sheet. Despite their significance to the sea level budget, local flood …

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 …

Supervised classification of slush and ponded water on Antarctic ice shelves using Landsat 8 imagery

RL Dell, AF Banwell, IC Willis, NS Arnold… - Journal of …, 2022‏ - cambridge.org
Surface meltwater is becoming increasingly widespread on Antarctic ice shelves. It is stored
within surface ponds and streams, or within firn pore spaces, which may saturate to form …

[HTML][HTML] Global seasonal dynamics of inland open water and ice

AH Pickens, MC Hansen, SV Stehman… - Remote Sensing of …, 2022‏ - Elsevier
Seasonal changes of temperature and precipitation cause inland open surface water and
ice cover extents to vary dramatically through the year from local to global scales. These …

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 …

[HTML][HTML] The distribution and evolution of supraglacial lakes on 79 N Glacier (north-eastern Greenland) and interannual climatic controls

JV Turton, P Hochreuther, N Reimann, MT Blau - The Cryosphere, 2021‏ - tc.copernicus.org
The Nioghalvfjerdsfjorden glacier (also known as the 79∘ North Glacier) drains
approximately 8% of the Greenland Ice Sheet. Supraglacial lakes (SGLs), or surface melt …