A new high-resolution global topographic factor dataset calculated based on SRTM

Y Sun, H Zhang, Q Yang, R Li, B Liu, X Zhao, H Shi… - Scientific Data, 2024 - nature.com
Topography is an important factor affecting soil erosion and is measured as a combination of
the slope length and slope steepness (LS-factor) in erosion models, like the Chinese Soil …

Fifty years of instrumental surface mass balance observations at Vostok Station, central Antarctica

AA Ekaykin, VY Lipenkov, NA Tebenkova - Journal of Glaciology, 2023 - cambridge.org
We present the surface mass balance (SMB) dataset from Vostok Station's accumulation
stake farms which provide the longest instrumental record of its kind obtained with a uniform …

A framework for automated supraglacial lake detection and depth retrieval in ICESat-2 photon data across the Greenland and Antarctic ice sheets

PS Arndt, HA Fricker - The Cryosphere, 2024 - tc.copernicus.org
Water depths of supraglacial lakes on the ice sheets are difficult to monitor continuously due
the lakes' ephemeral nature and inaccessible locations. Supraglacial lakes have been …

Error-Reduced Digital Elevation Model of the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau using ICESat-2 and Fusion Model

X Zhang, S Guo, B Yuan, H Mu, Z Xia, P Tang, H Fang… - Scientific Data, 2024 - nature.com
Abstract The Qinghai-Tibet Plateau (QTP) holds significance for investigating Earth's surface
processes. However, due to rugged terrain, forest canopy, and snow accumulation, open …

ICESat-2 Controlled Integration of GEDI and SRTM Data for Large-Scale Digital Elevation Model Generation

X Tian, J Shan - IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote …, 2024 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Recent developments in spaceborne laser altimetry have revolutionized the way digital
elevation models (DEMs) can be created with unprecedented productivity and accuracy …

Suitability analysis of human activities over Antarctic ice shelves: an integrated assessment of natural conditions based on machine learning algorithms

B Yang, S Liang, H Guo, X Li, M Lv… - International Journal of …, 2023 - Taylor & Francis
Human activities increase significantly over Antarctic ice shelves. However, they are
constantly faced with danger posed by the harsh environment. For decision-making, it is a …

T-GMSI: A transformer-based generative model for spatial interpolation under sparse measurements

X Tian, J Shan - arXiv preprint arXiv:2412.09886, 2024 - arxiv.org
Generating continuous environmental models from sparsely sampled data is a critical
challenge in spatial modeling, particularly for topography. Traditional spatial interpolation …

基于ICESat-2 卫星测高的南极冰盖1 km 数字高程模型

范艺培, 王泽民, 张保军 - 极地研究, 2023 - journal.chinare.org.cn
冰盖的数字高程模型(digital elevation model, DEM) 是对冰盖形状的刻画,
是研究南极冰盖必不可少的基础数据[1]. 然而, 受气候变化影响, 西南极冰盖发生了剧烈的消融 …

[PDF][PDF] Postprocessing high frequency global land cover maps for change assessment

D Masiliunas, NE Tsendbazar, M Herold… - Monitoring global land …, 2023 - edepot.wur.nl
The field of land cover mapping has recently been shifting towards more rapidly updated
land cover maps, with the Dynamic World product from Google classifying every Sentinel-2 …

A 1-km digital elevation model of the Antarctic ice sheet inferred from ICESat-2 altimetry

F Yipei, W Zemin, Z Baojun - Chinese Journal of Polar …, 2023 - journal.chinare.org.cn
A digital elevation model (DEM) describes the shape of an ice sheet. It is a particularly
essential data to study the Antarctic ice sheet. However, because of climate change, the …