ICESat Antarctic elevation data: Preliminary precision and accuracy assessment

CA Shuman, HJ Zwally, BE Schutz… - Geophysical …, 2006 - Wiley Online Library
Since 'first light'on February 20th, 2003, NASA's Ice, Cloud, and land Elevation Satellite
(ICESat) has derived surface elevations from∼ 86° N to 86° S latitude. These unique …

Estimation of ICESat intercampaign elevation biases from comparison of lidar data in East Antarctica

MA Hofton, SB Luthcke, JB Blair - Geophysical Research …, 2013 - Wiley Online Library
The Ice, Cloud, and land Elevation Satellite (ICESat) laser campaign elevation biases are
estimated from an analysis of ICESat and airborne Land, Vegetation, and Ice Sensor lidar …

Polar airborne observations fill gap in satellite data

L Koenig, S Martin, M Studinger… - Eos, Transactions …, 2010 - Wiley Online Library
In October 2009, NASA's Ice, Cloud, and land Elevation Satellite (ICESat) stopped collecting
science data. However, noting the progressive degradation of ICESat's Geoscience Laser …

A new methodology for detecting ice sheet surface elevation changes from laser altimetry data

T Schenk, B Csatho - IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and …, 2012 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The integrated program Surface Elevation Reconstruction And Change detection (SERAC)
was specifically designed and developed for detecting surface elevation and elevation …

ICESat's laser measurements of polar ice, atmosphere, ocean, and land

HJ Zwally, B Schutz, W Abdalati, J Abshire… - Journal of …, 2002 - Elsevier
The Ice, Cloud and Land Elevation Satellite (ICESat) mission will measure changes in
elevation of the Greenland and Antarctic ice sheets as part of NASA's Earth Observing …

The ICESat-2 laser altimetry mission

W Abdalati, HJ Zwally, R Bindschadler… - Proceedings of the …, 2010 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Satellite and aircraft observations have revealed that remarkable changes in the Earth's
polar ice cover have occurred in the last decade. The impacts of these changes, which …

Overview of the ICESat mission

BE Schutz, HJ Zwally, CA Shuman… - Geophysical …, 2005 - Wiley Online Library
The Geoscience Laser Altimeter System (GLAS) on the NASA Ice, Cloud and land Elevation
Satellite (ICESat) has provided a view of the Earth in three dimensions with unprecedented …

[HTML][HTML] Assessment of altimetry using ground-based GPS data from the 88S Traverse, Antarctica, in support of ICESat-2

KM Brunt, TA Neumann, CF Larsen - The Cryosphere, 2019 - tc.copernicus.org
We conducted a 750 km kinematic GPS survey, referred to as the 88S Traverse, based out of
South Pole Station, Antarctica, between December 2017 and January 2018. This ground …

Basal mass budget of Ross and Filchner‐Ronne ice shelves, Antarctica, derived from Lagrangian analysis of ICESat altimetry

G Moholdt, L Padman, HA Fricker - Journal of Geophysical …, 2014 - Wiley Online Library
Traditional methods of deriving temporal variability of Antarctic ice‐shelf elevation from
satellite altimetry use a fixed (“Eulerian”) reference frame, where the measured changes …

[HTML][HTML] Elevation change of the Antarctic Ice Sheet: 1985 to 2020

J Nilsson, A Gardner, F Paolo - Earth System Science Data …, 2021 - essd.copernicus.org
The largest uncertainty in future projections of sea level change comes from the uncertain
response of the Antarctic Ice Sheet to the warming oceans and atmosphere. The ice sheet …