Articles | Volume 18, issue 8
https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-18-3571-2024
https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-18-3571-2024
Research article
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15 Aug 2024
Research article |  | 15 Aug 2024

Improved records of glacier flow instabilities using customized NASA autoRIFT (CautoRIFT) applied to PlanetScope imagery

Jukes Liu, Madeline Gendreau, Ellyn Mary Enderlin, and Rainey Aberle

Data sets

Custom autoRIFT velocity maps Jukes Liu et al. https://doi.org/10.5067/VHFVXHZHOO6P

Model code and software

CryoGARS-Glaciology/planet_tile2img: Initial release (v0.1.1) Jukes Liu et al. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.10632745

jukesliu/CautoRIFT: v1.1.1 Jukes Liu https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.11372310

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Short summary
There are sometimes gaps in global glacier velocity records produced using satellite image feature-tracking algorithms during times of rapid glacier acceleration, which hinders the study of glacier flow processes. We present an open-source pipeline for customizing the feature-tracking parameters and for including images from an additional source. We applied it to five glaciers and found that it produced accurate velocity data that supplemented their velocity records during rapid acceleration.