Measuring glacier mass changes from space—a review

E Berthier, D Floriciou, AS Gardner… - Reports on Progress …, 2023 - iopscience.iop.org
Glaciers distinct from the Greenland and Antarctic ice sheets are currently losing mass
rapidly with direct and severe impacts on the habitability of some regions on Earth as glacier …

[HTML][HTML] Digital terrain model elevation corrections using space-based imagery and ICESat-2 laser altimetry

L Magruder, A Neuenschwander, B Klotz - Remote Sensing of Environment, 2021 - Elsevier
The most prevalent global surface models are derived from space-based technologies. The
spatial and temporal coverage of radar and imaging systems have significant advantage …

[HTML][HTML] Integrating spaceborne LiDAR and Sentinel-2 images to estimate forest aboveground biomass in Northern China

F Jiang, M Deng, J Tang, L Fu, H Sun - Carbon Balance and Management, 2022 - Springer
Background Fast and accurate forest aboveground biomass (AGB) estimation and mapping
is the basic work of forest management and ecosystem dynamic investigation, which is of …

ICESat‐2 meltwater depth estimates: application to surface melt on amery ice shelf, East Antarctica

HA Fricker, P Arndt, KM Brunt, RT Datta… - Geophysical …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Surface melting occurs during summer on the Antarctic and Greenland ice sheets, but the
volume of stored surface meltwater has been difficult to quantify due to a lack of accurate …

[HTML][HTML] A novel bathymetry signal photon extraction algorithm for photon-counting LiDAR based on adaptive elliptical neighborhood

Z Leng, J Zhang, Y Ma, J Zhang, H Zhu - International Journal of Applied …, 2022 - Elsevier
Abstract Ice Cloud and Land Elevation Satellite-2 (ICESat-2) uses a 532-nm laser with a
strong seawater penetration ability, and can provide reliable water depth information for sea …

[HTML][HTML] Mapping vegetation height and identifying the northern forest limit across Canada using ICESat-2, Landsat time series and topographic data

H Travers-Smith, NC Coops, C Mulverhill… - Remote Sensing of …, 2024 - Elsevier
The northern forest-tundra ecotone is one of the fastest warming regions of the globe.
Models of vegetation change generally predict a northward advance of boreal forests and …

[HTML][HTML] ICESat-2 bathymetric signal reconstruction method based on a deep learning model with active–passive data fusion

Z Leng, J Zhang, Y Ma, J Zhang - Remote Sensing, 2023 - mdpi.com
When carrying out SDB (satellite-derived bathymetry) in island area based on ICESat-2 (Ice,
Cloud, and land Elevation Satellite 2) data, it is often found that the ICESat-2 bathymetric …

[HTML][HTML] Radiometric assessment of ICESat-2 over vegetated surfaces

A Neuenschwander, L Magruder, E Guenther… - Remote Sensing, 2022 - mdpi.com
The ice, cloud, and land elevation satellite-2 (ICESat-2) is providing global elevation
measurements to the science community. ICESat-2 measures the height of the Earth's …

A new terrain matching method for estimating laser pointing and ranging systematic biases for spaceborne photon-counting laser altimeters

P Zhao, S Li, Y Ma, X Liu, J Yang, D Yu - ISPRS Journal of Photogrammetry …, 2022 - Elsevier
Precisely estimating on-orbit laser ranging and pointing systematic bias plays a significant
role in obtaining high accuracy data product for spaceborne laser altimeters. Current terrain …

Derived Depths in Opaque Waters Using ICESat‐2 Photon‐Counting Lidar

J Yang, Y Ma, H Zheng, N Xu, K Zhu… - Geophysical …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Since turbid waters make it extremely difficult for light to penetrate the water column due to
attenuation, performing satellite‐derived bathymetry using spectral images and/or photon …