Drews, Reinhard; Rack, Wolfgang; Wesche, Christine; Helm, Veit (2009): Digital elevation model (DEM) of the ice sheet in western Dronning Maud Land, Antarctica [dataset]. PANGAEA, https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.744808, Supplement to: Drews, R et al. (2009): A Spatially Adjusted Elevation Model in Dronning Maud Land, Antarctica, Based on Differential SAR Interferometry. IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Society, IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing, 47(8), 2501-2509, https://doi.org/10.1109/TGRS.2009.2016081
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Abstract:
In this paper, a new digital elevation model (DEM) is derived for the ice sheet in western Dronning Maud Land, Antarctica. It is based on differential interferometric synthetic aperture radar (SAR) from the European Remote Sensing 1/2 (ERS-1/2) satellites, in combination with ICESat's Geoscience Laser Altimeter System (GLAS). A DEM mosaic is compiled out of 116 scenes from the ERS-1 ice phase in 1994 and the ERS-1/2 tandem mission between 1996 and 1997 with the GLAS data acquired in 2003 that served as ground control. Using three different SAR processors, uncertainties in phase stability and baseline model, resulting in height errors of up to 20 m, are exemplified. Atmospheric influences at the same order of magnitude are demonstrated, and corresponding scenes are excluded. For validation of the DEM mosaic, covering an area of about 130,000 km**2 on a 50-m grid, independent ICESat heights (2004-2007), ground-based kinematic GPS (2005), and airborne laser scanner data (ALS, 2007) are used. Excluding small areas with low phase coherence, the DEM differs in mean and standard deviation by 0.5 +/- 10.1, 1.1 +/- 6.4, and 3.1 +/- 4.0 m from ICESat, GPS, and ALS, respectively. The excluded data points may deviate by more than 50 m. In order to suppress the spatially variable noise below a 5-m threshold, 18% of the DEM area is selectively averaged to a final product at varying horizontal spatial resolution. Apart from mountainous areas, the new DEM outperforms other currently available DEMs and may serve as a benchmark for future elevation models such as from the TanDEM-X mission to spatially monitor ice sheet elevation.
Project(s):
Glaciology @ AWI (AWI_Glac)
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| # | Name | Short Name | Unit | Principal Investigator | Method/Device | Comment |
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| 1 | Comment | Comment | Drews, Reinhard | |||
| 2 | File size | File size | kByte | Drews, Reinhard | ||
| 3 | File format | File format | Drews, Reinhard | |||
| 4 | Uniform resource locator/link to file | URL file | Drews, Reinhard |
License:
Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported (CC-BY-3.0)
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| 1 Comment | 2 File size [kByte] | 3 File format | 4 URL file |
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| Binary file with the elevation model on a 50 m grid | 530920 | binary | dem_50m_grid.bin |
| (Envi-) Header with projection info, data type and file size | 1 | binary | dem_50m_grid.bin.hdr |
| Quicklook for the elevation model | 240 | PNG | dem_50m_grid.png |
| Binary file for the elevation model which has been spatially resampled in critical noisy areas | 530920 | binary | dem_spatially_resampled.bin |
| (Envi-) Header file with projection info, data type and file size | 1 | binary | dem_spatially_resampled.bin.hdr |
| Quicklook of the resampled elevation model | 240 | PNG | dem_spatially_resampled.png |
