CryoSat-2 swath interferometric altimetry for mapping ice elevation and elevation change

N Gourmelen, MJ Escorihuela, A Shepherd… - Advances in Space …, 2018 - Elsevier
For more than 25 years, satellite radar altimetry has provided continuous information on the
state of the cryosphere and on its contribution to global sea-level rise. The technique …

[HTML][HTML] Spatially and temporally resolved ice loss in High Mountain Asia and the Gulf of Alaska observed by CryoSat-2 swath altimetry between 2010 and 2019

L Jakob, N Gourmelen, M Ewart, S Plummer - The Cryosphere, 2021 - tc.copernicus.org
Glaciers are currently the largest contributor to sea level rise after ocean thermal expansion,
contributing∼ 30% to the sea level budget. Global monitoring of these regions remains a …

Ice‐sheet elevations from across‐track processing of airborne interferometric radar altimetry

RL Hawley, A Shepherd, R Cullen… - Geophysical …, 2009 - Wiley Online Library
Interferometric Radar Altimeters (IRA's) use dual receive antennas to overcome one of the
spatial limitations of pulse‐limited altimeters. In a conventional IRA measurement, the range …

Improved retrieval of land ice topography from CryoSat-2 data and its impact for volume-change estimation of the Greenland Ice Sheet

J Nilsson, A Gardner, L Sandberg Sørensen… - The …, 2016 - tc.copernicus.org
A new methodology for retrieval of glacier and ice sheet elevations and elevation changes
from CryoSat-2 data is presented. Surface elevations and elevation changes determined …

Surface elevation change and mass balance of Icelandic ice caps derived from swath mode CryoSat‐2 altimetry

L Foresta, N Gourmelen, F Pálsson… - Geophysical …, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
We apply swath processing to CryoSat‐2 interferometric mode data acquired over the
Icelandic ice caps to generate maps of rates of surface elevation change at 0.5 km postings …

Interferometric swath processing of Cryosat data for glacial ice topography

L Gray, D Burgess, L Copland, R Cullen, N Galin… - The …, 2013 - tc.copernicus.org
We have derived digital elevation models (DEMs) over the western part of the Devon Ice
Cap in Nunavut, Canada, using" swath processing" of interferometric data collected by …

[HTML][HTML] A new digital elevation model of Antarctica derived from CryoSat-2 altimetry

T Slater, A Shepherd, M McMillan, A Muir… - The …, 2018 - tc.copernicus.org
We present a new digital elevation model (DEM) of the Antarctic ice sheet and ice shelves
based on 2.5× 10 8 observations recorded by the CryoSat-2 satellite radar altimeter …

A revised calibration of the interferometric mode of the CryoSat-2 radar altimeter improves ice height and height change measurements in western Greenland

L Gray, D Burgess, L Copland, T Dunse… - The …, 2017 - tc.copernicus.org
We compare geocoded heights derived from the interferometric mode (SARIn) of CryoSat to
surface heights from calibration–validation sites on Devon Ice Cap and western Greenland …

25 years of elevation changes of the Greenland Ice Sheet from ERS, Envisat, and CryoSat-2 radar altimetry

LS Sørensen, SB Simonsen, R Forsberg… - Earth and Planetary …, 2018 - Elsevier
The shape of the large ice sheets responds rapidly to climate change, making the elevation
changes of these ice-covered regions an essential climate variable. Consistent, long time …

Sentinel-3 delay-Doppler altimetry over Antarctica

M McMillan, A Muir, A Shepherd, R Escolà… - The …, 2019 - tc.copernicus.org
The launch of Sentinel-3A in February 2016 represented the beginning of a new long-term
series of operational satellite radar altimeters, which will provide Delay-Doppler altimetry …