Upscaling ground-based structural glaciological investigations via satellite remote sensing to larger-scale ice masses: Bylot Island, Canadian Arctic

Result code in IS VaVaI

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Result on the web

<a href="https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/esp.5367" target="_blank" >https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/esp.5367</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/esp.5367" target="_blank" >10.1002/esp.5367</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Upscaling ground-based structural glaciological investigations via satellite remote sensing to larger-scale ice masses: Bylot Island, Canadian Arctic

Original language description

Using satellite remote sensing, this study aims to assess the validity of upscaling ground-based structural observations of small valley glaciers, to larger-scale ice masses that are too vast or inaccessible for field-study or ground-truthing. Focusing on four adjacent valley glaciers on Bylot Island, Nunavut, Arctic Canada, we establish that ground-based structural observations from two smaller (Stagnation and Fountain Glaciers) can be used to interpret the structures visible in optical satellite imagery in two much larger glaciers (Aktineq and Sermilik Glaciers). All the glaciers investigated have prominent longitudinal lineations, which are interpreted from ground observations to be longitudinal foliation. Other structures that were identified include primary stratification, crevasses, crevasse traces, and thrust-faults. Strong longitudinal foliation is concentrated at flow-unit boundaries, with differential ablation of ice facies commonly resulting in a ridge-and-furrow supraglacial topography that controls supraglacial streams and debris concentrations. Consequently, areas of strong foliation appear darker than areas of weak foliation in satellite imagery. As coarser resolution imagery is utilized to map large-scale ice masses, sub-pixel structural information is lost. Individual lineations mapped in coarser resolution imagery therefore probably comprise groups of clustered foliation at the sub-pixel scale. Lateral narrowing measurements and calculated one-dimensional strain across zones of longitudinal foliation are assessed as a tool for identifying large-scale surface strain patterns, in particular large-scale pure shear regimes. These one-dimensional strain measurements suggest that flow-unit boundaries are areas that undergo considerable cumulative strains. The upscaling approach used here can be applied to the largest ice masses, notably the Antarctic Ice Sheet.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_imp - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

10508 - Physical geography

Project

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Continuities

I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Publication year

2022

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

Earth Surface Processes and Landforms

ISSN

0197-9337

e-ISSN

1096-9837

Volume of the periodical

47

Issue of the periodical within the volume

8

Country of publishing house

US - UNITED STATES

Number of pages

21

Pages from-to

2130-2150

UT code for WoS article

000788371200001

EID of the result in the Scopus database

2-s2.0-85128833615