Satellite remote sensing is a convenient tool for studying snow and glacier ice, allowing us
to conduct research over large and otherwise inaccessible areas. This paper reviews …

Altimetry is probably one of the most powerful tools for ice sheet observation. Our vision of
the Antarctic ice sheet has been deeply transformed since the launch of the ERS1 satellite in …

This study presents the first results obtained with the ENVISAT satellite radar altimeter RA-2
over lands and ice caps. As radar altimetry was firstly devoted to ocean study, this paper …

The India-France SARAL/AltiKa mission is the first Ka-band altimetric mission dedicated to
oceanography. The mission objectives are primarily the observation of the oceanic …

Long-term observations of surface elevation change of the Greenland ice sheet (GrIS) is of
utmost importance when assessing the state of the ice sheet. Satellite radar altimetry offers a …

The ERS-1 satellite, launched in 1991, has provided altimetric observations of the
Greenland Ice Sheet and 80 per cent of the Antarctica Ice Sheet north of 82° S. It was placed …

Because of the importance of detecting climate change signals over Antarctica, we
examined the dependence of the snow's effective temperature times its emissivity …

In this paper waveforms, that is, returns from the ocean surface, from a number of
spaceborne radar altimeter instruments [European Remote-sensing Satellites (ERS-1 and …

The objective of this two-volume book is to survey one of the most challenging and at the
same time most necessary applications of satellite remote sensing: geophysical sciences in …

We consider the reliability of radar altimeter measurements of ice sheet elevation and
snowpack properties in the presence of surface undulations. We demonstrate that over ice …