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Research article
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12 Nov 2021
Research article |
| 12 Nov 2021
| 12 Nov 2021
Supraglacial lake bathymetry automatically derived from ICESat-2 constraining lake depth estimates from multi-source satellite imagery
Rajashree Tri Datta
CORRESPONDING AUTHOR
Earth Systems Science Interdisciplinary Center, University of
Maryland, College Park, MD, USA
NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, USA
Department of Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences, University of
Colorado Boulder, Boulder, CO, USA
Bert Wouters
Institute for Marine and Atmospheric Research, Department of Physics, Utrecht University, Utrecht, the Netherlands
Faculty of Civil Engineering and Geosciences, Delft University of
Technology, Delft, the Netherlands
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- High-resolution imaging of supraglacial hydrological features on the Greenland Ice Sheet with NASA's Airborne Topographic Mapper (ATM) instrument suite M. Studinger et al.
- Subglacial lake activity beneath the ablation zone of the Greenland Ice Sheet Y. Fan et al.
- Potential of ICESat-2 and multispectral satellite imagery for estimating the depth of shallow glacial lakes in the Himalaya S. Verma & S. Vijay
- A sliding window-based coastal bathymetric method for ICESat-2 photon-counting LiDAR data with variable photon density J. He et al.
- Volumetric evolution of supraglacial lakes in southwestern Greenland using ICESat-2 and Sentinel-2 T. Feng et al.
- A Robust Density Estimation Method for Glacier-Height Retrieval From ICESat-2 Photon-Counting Data R. Chang et al.
- An Algorithm for Extracting Bathymetry from ICESat-2 Data That Employs Structure and Density Using Concentric Ellipses Y. Rzhanov & K. Lowell
- Evaluation of satellite methods for estimating supraglacial lake depth in southwest Greenland L. Melling et al.
- Greenland supraglacial lakes albedo-depth parameterization from multi-source remote sensing: An application of lake-albedo feedback modeling J. Wu et al.
- Supraglacial Lake Depth Retrieval from ICESat-2 and Multispectral Imagery Datasets Q. Zhou et al.
- Recent significant subseasonal fluctuations of supraglacial lakes on Greenland monitored by passive optical satellites J. Qiu et al.
- The Effect of Suspended Particulate Matter on the Supraglacial Lake Depth Retrieval from Optical Data L. Brodský et al.
- ICESat-2 bathymetry algorithms: A review of the current state-of-the-art and future outlook J. Jung et al.
- Mechanism and algorithm for addressing the impact of multiple scattering on surface elevation extraction in photon-counting LiDAR data Z. Wang et al.
- Southwest Greenland supraglacial lake bathymetry derived from ICESat-2 and spectral stratification of satellite imagery J. Lv et al.
- A framework for automated supraglacial lake detection and depth retrieval in ICESat-2 photon data across the Greenland and Antarctic ice sheets P. Arndt & H. Fricker
- Geomorphic coupling between proglacial lake dynamics and moraine failure: a new mechanism of GLOF hazard in the Samudra Tapu glacier system M. Salim & R. Garg
- Monitoring Earth’s climate variables with satellite laser altimetry L. Magruder et al.
- A Denoising Methodology for Detecting ICESat-2 Bathymetry Photons Based on Quasi Full Waveform K. Jia et al.
- Bathymetry and morphometric analysis of Greek natural lakes through a hybrid GIS-acoustic methodology T. Perivolioti et al.
- An automated algorithm to retrieve the location and depth of supraglacial lakes from ICESat-2 ATL03 data W. Xiao et al.
- Estimating supraglacial lake depth in Greenland: A comparison study of empirical formula, radiative transfer and depression topography methods M. Man et al.
- Assessing supraglacial lake depth using ICESat-2, Sentinel-2, TanDEM-X, and in situ sonar measurements over Northeast and Southwest Greenland K. Lutz et al.
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Short summary
The ICESat-2 laser altimeter can detect the surface and bottom of a supraglacial lake. We introduce the Watta algorithm, automatically calculating lake surface, corrected bottom, and (sub-)surface ice at high resolution adapting to signal strength. ICESat-2 depths constrain full lake depths of 46 lakes over Jakobshavn glacier using multiple sources of imagery, including very high-resolution Planet imagery, used for the first time to extract supraglacial lake depths empirically using ICESat-2.
The ICESat-2 laser altimeter can detect the surface and bottom of a supraglacial lake. We...
