Speaker: David Braaten, Professor, Geography and Deputy Director, CReSIS University of Kansas Lawrence, Kansas, USA

Abstract

The Center for Remote Sensing of Ice Sheets (CReSIS) at the University of Kansas is conducting and fostering multidisciplinary research that will result in advanced technology, new data sets, and numerical models for a more accurate determination of the mass balance of the Antarctic and Greenland ice sheets and their contributions to sea-level rise.

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Because of the immense size and complexity of these ice sheets, data from satellite and airborne platforms, combined with ground-based, in situ measurements and observations, are needed to accurately assess their mass balance state.

CReSIS is developing sensors and platforms that will allow us to measure ice sheet characteristics over an entire drainage basin of an ice sheet. One of these systems, a Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR), can characterize the ice-bed interface at fine resolution in both the cross- and along-track directions.

Field experiments have been conducted at Summit, Greenland and in West Antarctica using the SAR, a depth sounder that can also image deep internal layers in the ice, and two high resolution snow accumulation radars. An overview of CReSIS, a description of the systems and field experiments, and some sample results will be presented.

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