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Time-series snowmelt detection over the Antarctic using Sentinel-1 SAR images on Google Earth Engine / Dong Liang in Remote sensing of environment, Vol 256 (April 2020)  

Public [article]  inRemote sensing of environment > Vol 256 (April 2020) . - n° 112318 Titre : Time-series snowmelt detection over the Antarctic using Sentinel-1 SAR images on Google Earth Engine Type de document : Article/Communication Auteurs : Dong Liang, Auteur ; Huadong Guo, Auteur ; Lu Zhang, Auteur ; et al., Auteur Année de publication : 2021 Article en page(s) : n° 112318 Note générale : bibliographie Langues : Anglais (eng) Descripteur : [Vedettes matières IGN] Applications de télédétection [Termes IGN] albedo [Termes IGN] Antarctique [Termes IGN] calotte glaciaire [Termes IGN] changement climatique [Termes IGN] coefficient de rétrodiffusion [Termes IGN] distribution spatiale [Termes IGN] fonte des glaces [Termes IGN] Google Earth Engine [Termes IGN] image radar moirée [Termes IGN] image Sentinel-SAR [Termes IGN] montée du niveau de la mer [Termes IGN] série temporelle Résumé : (auteur) The Antarctic ice sheet is an important mass of glacier ice. It is particularly sensitive to climate change, and the flow of Antarctica's inland glaciers into the sea, accelerated by collapsing ice shelves, threatens global sea level rise. The amount of snowmelt on the surface of the ice sheet is an important metric for accurately assessing surface material loss and albedo change, which affect the stability of the ice sheet. This study proposes a framework for quickly extracting time-series freeze-thaw information at the continental scale and 40 m resolution by taking advantage of the huge amount of synthetic aperture radar (SAR) data acquired by Sentinel-1 satellites over the Antarctic, available for rapid processing on Google Earth Engine. Co-orbit normalization is used in the proposed framework to establish a unified standard of judgement by reducing the variations in the backscattering coefficient introduced by observation geometry, terrain fluctuations, and melt conditions between images acquired at different times. We implemented the framework to produce a massive dataset of both monthly freeze-thaw information over the Antarctic and higher temporal resolution freeze-thaw information for the Larsen C ice shelf from 2015 to 2019, with overall accuracies of 93% verified by a manual visual interpretation method and 84% evaluated from automatic weather station temperatures. Due to its effectiveness and robustness, the framework can be used to analyse the spatiotemporal distribution of snowmelt, the change in melt area, and anomalous melt events in Antarctica, especially those in Larsen C caused by foehn wind. Numéro de notice : A2021-477 Affiliation des auteurs : non IGN Thématique : IMAGERIE Nature : Article DOI : 10.1016/j.rse.2021.112318 Date de publication en ligne : 10/02/2021 En ligne : https://doi.org/10.1016/j.rse.2021.112318 Format de la ressource électronique : url article Permalink : https://documentation.ensg.eu/index.php?lvl=notice_display&id=97117 [article]