Monitoring alpine glacier activity by a combined use of TerraSAR-X images and continuous GPS measurements - The Argentière glacier experiment

  • Emmanuel Trouvé
  • , Ivan Pétillot
  • , Philippe Bolon
  • , Michel Gay
  • , Lionel Bombrun
  • , Jean Marie Nicolas
  • , Florence Tupin
  • , Andrea Walpersdorf
  • , Nathalie Cotte
  • , Irena Hajnsek
  • , Martin Keller

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Abstract

The monitoring of Alpine glacier activity is one of the applications which require the combined use of ground measurements and SAR data. It should become feasible thanks to the new generation SAR satellites (ALOS, TerraSAR-X, Cosmo-SkyMed and RadarSAT-2) and the high precision GPS measurements. This paper presents the early results of an experiment which started in 2007 on Argentière glacier (Mont-Blanc area) and includes a moving corner reflector (CR) oriented for TerraSAR-X acquisitions, SAR images where this CR is visible and 3 continuous GPS stations providing the CR position and information on the tropospheric path delay corrections.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationEUSAR 2008 - 7th European Conference on Synthetic Aperture Radar
PublisherInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
ISBN (Electronic)9783800730841
Publication statusPublished - 1 Jan 2008
Event7th European Conference on Synthetic Aperture Radar, EUSAR 2008 - Friedrichshafen, Germany
Duration: 2 Jun 20085 Jun 2008

Publication series

NameProceedings of the European Conference on Synthetic Aperture Radar, EUSAR
Volume1-4
ISSN (Print)2197-4403

Conference

Conference7th European Conference on Synthetic Aperture Radar, EUSAR 2008
Country/TerritoryGermany
CityFriedrichshafen
Period2/06/085/06/08

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