Studying changes of ice coasts in the European Arctic
Abstract
The present extent of European ice coasts, their spatial changes in the past 50 years and the velocities of ice flow in marginal parts of tidewater glaciers were determined and mapped at a regional scale using space-borne image data, both optical and radar. The methods of satellite photogrammetry and radar interferometry provided efficient solutions to the integral estimation of ice-coast dynamics in the Franz Josef Land, Novaya Zemlya and Svalbard archipelagos. Studies revealed significant degradation of the ice coasts (-7.7% by length) compared to the situation represented in the available maps. The results obtained in the laboratory were verified during several field campaigns.
- Publication:
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Geo-Marine Letters
- Pub Date:
- June 2005
- DOI:
- 10.1007/s00367-004-0197-7
- Bibcode:
- 2005GML....25..153S