Summary

Remote sensing techniques can be used to investigate the dynamics and surface characteristics of the Antarctic ice sheet and its outlet glaciers. This paper describes a methodology developed to map glacial movement velocities from LANDSAT MSS data, together with an assessment of the accuracy achieved. The velocities are derived by using digital iamge processing to register two temporally separated LANDSAT images of the Denman Glacier and Shackleton Ice Shelf region. A derived image map is compared with existing maps of the region to substantiate the measured velocities. The velocity estimates from this study were found to correspond closely with ground-based measurements in the study area.

Authors:Jones S.A. Young N. Published in: 1988 Category 3: Conference paper Program area: Glaciology
Jones S.A., Young N. (1988) Measurement of Antarctic glacier movement using Landsat MSS data, Technical Papers of the Proceedings of 7th Australian Cartographic Conference, August 22-26 1988, Sydney, Australia Vol 2. 752-762;

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