Comparisons of satellite and airborne altimetry with ground‐based data from the interior of the Antarctic ice sheet

KM Brunt, BE Smith, TC Sutterley… - Geophysical …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
A series of traverses has been conducted for validation of the National Aeronautics and
Space Administration Ice, Cloud, and land Elevation Satellite 2 (ICESat‐2) on the flat interior …

Assessment of ICESat‐2 ice sheet surface heights, based on comparisons over the interior of the Antarctic ice sheet

KM Brunt, TA Neumann… - Geophysical Research …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract We collected kinematic Global Navigation Satellite Systems (GNSS) surface height
data, on a 750‐km ground‐based traverse of the flat interior of the Antarctic ice sheet, for …

[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 …

ICESat elevations in Antarctica along the 2007–09 Norway–USA traverse: Validation with ground-based GPS

J Kohler, TA Neumann, JW Robbins… - IEEE transactions on …, 2012 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The 2007-09 Norway-USA Traverse of East Antarctica collected dual-frequency Global
Positioning System (GPS) data at 5-s intervals on two of the traverse vehicles. The traverse …

Accuracy of satellite altimeter elevations over the Greenland ice sheet

S Ekholm, R Forsberg… - Journal of Geophysical …, 1995 - Wiley Online Library
The accuracy of Geosat satellite altimetry over the Greenland ice sheet is evaluated by
comparing the measured heights to radar elevations from the airborne Greenland …

Evaluation of ice, cloud, and land elevation satellite-2 (ICESat-2) land ice surface heights using airborne topographic mapper (ATM) data in Antarctica

X Shen, CQ Ke, X Yu, Y Cai, Y Fan - International Journal of …, 2021 - Taylor & Francis
The land ice surface heights derived from Ice, Cloud, and Land Elevation Satellite-2 (ICESat-
2) were assessed by comparing to the near-coincident measurements from the Airborne …

A digital elevation model of the Antarctic ice sheet derived from ERS-1 altimeter data and comparison with terrestrial measurements

JL Bamber - Annals of Glaciology, 1994 - cambridge.org
The launch of ERS-1 provides coverage, by satellite altimetry, of 80% of the Antarctic ice
sheet, allowing topographic mapping of areas which previously had a dearth of accurate …

[HTML][HTML] The Ice, Cloud, and land Elevation Satellite-2 (ICESat-2): science requirements, concept, and implementation

T Markus, T Neumann, A Martino, W Abdalati… - Remote sensing of …, 2017 - Elsevier
Abstract The Ice, Cloud, and land Elevation Satellite (ICESat) mission used laser altimetry
measurements to determine changes in elevations of glaciers and ice sheets, as well as sea …

ICESat's performance and its application in Dome A Area in Antarctica

E Dongchen, Y XU, X ZHANG - Geomatics and Information Science …, 2007 - ch.whu.edu.cn
The on-orbit measurement performance of GLAS is summarized, and the precision of the
data products is analyzed. With the high-accuracy ICESat measurements and the GPS …

Mapping ice-sheet margins from radar altimetry data

RH Thomas, TV Martin, HJ Zwally - Annals of Glaciology, 1983 - cambridge.org
The Seasat radar altimeter, which was designed to measure ranges to the sea surface, has
also provided the most accurate available maps of ice-sheet elevation. Seasat operated for …