FUSION OF MULTI-TEMPORAL AND MULTI-SENSOR ICE VELOCITY OBSERVATIONS

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  • Laurane Charrier
  • Yajing Yan
  • Elise Colin Koeniguer
  • Jeremie Mouginot
  • Romain Millan
  • Emmanuel Trouvé

Ice velocity observations available on-line or on-demand at intra-annual resolution still contain gaps, noise, and artifacts, especially in mountain areas. There is a need to fuse the available multi-temporal and multi-sensor velocity observations to be able to study intra-annual glacier dynamics. The proposed approach includes an inversion based on the temporal closure of displacement observation networks and a temporal interpolation. It reconstructs velocity time series between consecutive dates at a regular temporal sampling (called Regular Leap Frog (RLF) time series) inferred from all the velocity observations without a prori knowledge on the displacement behavior. The RLF time series can be reconstructed for different temporal sampling. Root Mean Square Error (RMSE) over stable areas and Velocity Vector Coherence (VVC) over fast moving areas are proposed to select a temporal sampling allowing a compromise between uncertainty and temporal resolution. This study focuses on the Fox glacier, in the Southern Alps of New Zealand. It shows that RMSE over stable areas is decreased from 78% for a temporal sampling of 5 days to 40% for a temporal sampling of 60 days. Thus, using this approach, we obtain a velocity time series with a complete temporal coverage and reduced uncertainty for a regular and optimal temporal sampling. The results highlight the large seasonal variability of the flow of Fox Glacier that fluctuates by more than 30% between spring and autumn.

Original languageEnglish
JournalISPRS Annals of the Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing and Spatial Information Sciences
Volume5-3
Pages (from-to)311-318
Number of pages8
ISSN2194-9042
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2022
Event24th ISPRS Congress "Imaging Today, Foreseeing Tomorrow" - Nice, France
Duration: 6 Jun 202211 Jun 2022

Conference

Conference24th ISPRS Congress "Imaging Today, Foreseeing Tomorrow"
CountryFrance
CityNice
Period06/06/202211/06/2022

    Research areas

  • velocity time series, multi-sensors, multi-temporal, fusion, glacier displacements, TIME-SERIES, GLACIER, FLOW, ALGORITHM, DYNAMICS, IMAGES, ALASKA

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