[PDF] Top 20 Radar methods for the exploration of glaciers

... Partly because of t his, and the fact that there are glaciers with very little liquid water present, radar methods are believed to be worthy of further research[r] ... See full document

... Our interest was to retrieve surface backscatter;in this study, images with VV polarization were utilized. The data was initially pre-processed for orbit, radiometric and geometric corrections. Co- registration is ... See full document

... Jo urnal rifG lacio logy ent datasets are well described by l inear fits, but with differ­ ent slopes. For shallow ice of large ice sheets, a linear rela­ tionship between depth and age, t, is a very reasonable ... See full document

... for glaciers rely on single point observations in combination with model and interpolation ...in radar data with such low backscatter ...on glaciers is possible for specific observation ...of ... See full document

... of glaciers. Moreover, as mentioned earlier, these two families of methods are a usual tool for regional and global projections of mass losses from glaciers, and corresponding sea-level rise, in ... See full document

... arti®cial radar aurora can be produced at power levels of as low as 10 MW of ...all-sky radar also has a low power requirement; indeed for such operation SPEAR would transmit an ERP comparable to that of ... See full document

... resolution methods have become a significant research area due to the swiftly growing interest for high quality graphics in several computer visions and pattern recognition approaches which has lead to the ... See full document

... sulting from choosing a low r value) then the marginal cells with h f = h ga receive more weight, and the result is a shal- low glacier cross section as illustrated in Fig. A1 for the case r = 0.1. If the interpolation ... See full document

... other methods [16]. The other methods were 1) the Park’s method (or linear demodulation as named by the authors; this should not be con- fused with the PCA method in Chapter ...the radar monitoring ... See full document

... both methods to (1) work with sparse, error-containing and duplicate data; (2) deliver a smooth surface without losing reliability; (3) produce accurate ice-volume estimates on synthetic glaciers and ice ... See full document

... alternative methods can distinguish subglacial till types, as long as reflections from crevasses do not obscure the bed ...on glaciers, as it can predict AVA success or failure based on crevasse geometries ... See full document

... on glaciers, de- spite being a fundamental component of glacier mass bal- ...ground-penetrating radar (GPR) observations on two glaciers in Alaska during the spring of 5 consecutive ...different ... See full document

... for radar systems operating in VHF/UHF bands because these frequencies are also widely used by television, radio and wireless communications for many civilian and military ...VHF/UFH radar systems, surveys ... See full document

... main methods: smooth surface, single bounce, double bounce, and volumetric ...the radar energy is incident on a smooth surface relative to the wavelength of the ... See full document

... theoretic methods in radar systems, game theory has already been studied and provided some impressive results in wire- less communication ...in radar net- works, such as resource allocation and ... See full document

... 6. J. Lijffijt, P. Papapetrou, and K. Puolamäki. The k-windows problem: Finding the most informative set of window lengths. Forthcoming. Publication 6 is an expanded version of Publication 5. The text has been partly ... See full document

... Environmental Concerns Crewmembers of a distant exploration mission will face a level and duration of radiation exposure never before encountered in the history of space flight. Multiple authors identify radiation ... See full document

... SAR radar images of the 2-m section of twisted strand power-line cable in either free space or suspended 3 m above ...the radar beam incident from the left in the ...the radar image. As the ... See full document

... and methods to decompose a signal in both time and ...Both methods work by having a sliding window extract a portion (in time) of the signal(s) and calculate the spectral contents of that ... See full document

... of radar sounding namely (i) system design, (ii) low-level processing and (iii) high level ...the radar sounding state of the ...a radar sounder specifically designed for detecting Moon lava tubes ... See full document