Title
Antarctic Surface Ice Velocity Retrieval from MODIS-Based Mosaic of Antarctica (MOA).
Abstract
The velocity of ice flow in the Antarctic is a crucial factor to determine ice discharge and thus future sea level rise. Feature tracking has been widely used in optical and radar imagery with fine resolution to retrieve flow parameters, although the primitive result may be contaminated by noise. In this paper, we present a series of modified post-processing steps, such as SNR thresholding by residual, complex Butterworth filters, and triple standard deviation truncation, to improve the performance of primitive results, and apply it to MODIS-based Mosaic of Antarctica (MOA) datasets. The final velocity field result displays the general flow pattern of the peripheral Antarctic. Seventy-eight out of 97 streamlines starting from seed points are smooth and continuous. The RMSE with 178 manually selected tie points is within 60 m.a(-1). The systematic comparison with Making Earth System Data Records for Use in Research Environments (MEaSUREs) datasets in seven drainages shows that the results regarding high magnitude and large-scale ice shelf are highly reliable; absolute mean and median difference are less than 18 m.a(-1), while the result of localized drainage suffered from too much tracking error. The relative differences from manually selected and random points are controlled within 8% when speed is beyond 500 m.a(-1), but bias and uncertainty are pronounced when speed is lower than that. The result through our accuracy control strategy highlights that coarse remote-sensed images such as Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectrophotometer (MODIS) can still offer the capability for comprehensive and long-term continental ice sheet surface velocity mapping.
Year
DOI
Venue
2018
10.3390/rs10071045
REMOTE SENSING
Keywords
Field
DocType
Antarctic,ice velocity,feature tracking,COSI-Corr,filter,MOA
Remote sensing,Geology,Mosaic
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
10
7
2072-4292
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
0
0.34
9
Authors
6
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Teng Li1306.69
Yan Liu224173.08
Tian Li300.34
Fengming Hui402.37
Zhuoqi Chen501.01
Xiao Cheng601.69