Published Research: 2010-2012
This page is a bibliography of research published in 2010-2012 using NASA ICESat/GLAS data. Please contact NSIDC User Services if you have a reference you would like to share on this page.
Also, for a complete description of the the physical and mathematical concepts of the algorithms used in the generation of the NASA ICESat/GLAS data products, see the ICESat/GLAS Algorithm Theoretical Basis Documents from the Center for Space Research at the University of Texas.
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2012
Los, S. O., J. A. B. Rosette, N. Kljun, P. R. J. North, L. Chasmer, J. C. Suárez, C. Hopkinson, R. A. Hill, E. van Gorsel, C. Mahoney, and J. A. J. Berni. 2012. Vegetation Height and Cover Fraction Between 60° S and 60° N from ICESat GLAS Data. Geoscientific Model Development5: 413-432. doi:10.5194/gmd-5-413-2012.
2011
Abdallah, H., J. S. Bailly, N. Baghdadi, and N. Lemarquand. 2011. Improving the Assessment of Icesat Water Altimetry Accuracy Accounting for Autocorrelation. ISPRS Journal of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing 66(6): 833-844. doi: 10.1016/j.isprsjprs.2011.09.002.
Baghdadi, N., N. Lemarquand, H. Abdallah, and J. S. Bailly. 2011. The Relevance of GLAS/ICESat Elevation Data for the Monitoring of River Networks. Remote Sensing 3(4): 708-720.
Ballhorn, U., J. Jubanski, and F. Siegert. 2011. Icesat/Glas Data as a Measurement Tool for Peatland Topography and Peat Swamp Forest Biomass in Kalimantan, Indonesia. Remote Sensing 3(9): 1957-1982.
Bengtson, L., S. Koumoutsaris, and K. Hodges. 2011. Large-Scale Surface Mass Balance of Ice Sheets from a Comprehensive Atmospheric Model. Surveys in Geophysics, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10712-011-9120-8.
Brunt, K. M., H. A. Fricker, and L. Padman. 2011. Analysis of Ice Plains of the Filchnerronne Ice Shelf, Antarctica, Using Icesat Laser Altimetry. Journal of Glaciology 57(205): 965-975. doi: 10.3189/002214311798043753.
Bindschadler, R., et al. 2011. Getting around Antarctica: New High-Resolution Mappings of the Grounded and Freely-Floating Boundaries of the Antarctic Ice Sheet Created for the International Polar Year. Cryosphere 5:569–588. doi: 10.5194/tc-5-569-2011.
Cheng, F., C. Wang, J. Wang, F. Tang, and X. Xi. 2011. Trend Analysis of Building Height and Total Floor Space in Beijing, China Using Icesat/Glas Data. International Journal of Remote Sensing 32(23): 8823-8835. doi: 10.1080/01431161.2010.547531.
Fujita, S., et al. 2011. Spatial and Temporal Variability of Snow Accumulation Rate on the East Antarctic Ice Divide between Dome Fuji and Epica Dml. The Cryosphere 5:1057-1081. doi: 10.5194/tc-5-1057-2011.
Gardner, A. S., G. Moholdt, B. Wouters, G. J. Wolken, D. O. Burgess, M. J. Sharp, J. G. Cogley, C. Braun, and C. Labine. 2011. Sharply Increased Mass Loss from Glaciers and Ice Caps in the Canadian Arctic Archipelago. Nature 473 (7347): 357-360. doi: 10.1038/nature10089.
Gong, P., Z. Li, H. Huang, G. Sun, and L. Wang. 2011. Icesat Glas Data for Urban Environment Monitoring. IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing 49(3): 1158-1172.
Griggs, J. A., and J. L. Bamber. 2011. Antarctic Ice-Shelf Thickness from Satellite Radar Altimetry. Journal of Glaciology 57(203): 485-498.
Gudmundsson, S., H. Björnsson, E. Magnússon, E. Berthier, F. Pálsson, M. T. Gudmundsson, and J. Dall. 2011. Response of Glacier Mass Balance to Regional Warming, Deduced by Remote Sensing on Three glaciers in S-Iceland. Vedur 20092011]. http://en.vedur.is/media/ces/glacier_mass_balance_poster.pdf. PDF, 197 KB.
Horgan, H. J., R. T. Walker, S. Anandakrishnan, and R. B. Alley. 2011. Surface Elevation Changes at the Front of the Ross Ice Shelf: Implications for Basal Melting. J. Geophys. Res. 116(C2): C02005. doi: 10.1029/2010jc006192.
Kotlyakov, V., L. Vasiliev, A. Kachalin, M. Moskalevskii, and A. Tyuflin. 2011. Punctuated Equilibrium of the Surface above Subglacial Lake Vostok in Antarctica. Doklady Earth Sciences 438(1): 649-651. doi: 10.1134/s1028334x11050047.
Kumar, A., and P. Trivedi. 2011. Co-Kriging Approach for Cartosat-1 Height Product with Icesat/Glas Data for Digital Elevation Surface Generation. Journal of the Indian Society of Remote Sensing. doi: 10.1007/s12524-011-0144-9.
Kurtz, N. T., T. Markus, S. L. Farrell, D. L. Worthen, and L. N. Boisvert. 2011. Observations of Recent Arctic Sea Ice Volume Loss and Its Impact on Ocean-Atmosphere Energy Exchange and Ice Production. J. Geophys. Res. 116(C4): C04015. doi: 10.1029/2010jc006235.
Lee, S., W. Ni-Meister, W. Yang, and Q. Chen. 2011. Physically Based Vertical Vegetation Structure Retrieval from Icesat Data: Validation Using LVIS in White Mountain National Forest, New Hampshire, USA. Remote Sensing of Environment 115(11): 2776-2785. doi: 10.1016/j.rse.2010.08.026.
Lemarquand, N., N. Baghdadi, and J. S. Bailly. 2011. Etude De La Précision Du Satellite Lidar Glas-Icesat Pour L'altimétrie Des Eaux Continentales. Hyper Articles en ligne (HAL) 2(194): 45-52.
Li, A., C. Huang, G. Sun, H. Shi, C. Toney, Z. Zhu, M. G. Rollins, S. N. Goward, and J. G. Masek. 2011. Modeling the Height of Young Forests Regenerating from Recent Disturbances in Mississippi Using Landsat and Icesat Data. Remote Sensing of Environment 115(8): 1837-1849. doi: 10.1016/j.rse.2011.03.001.
Li, L., and Y. Xing. 2011. Icesat-Glas-Based Forest Type Classification Using Svm Artificial Intelligence and Computational Intelligence. Edited by Deng, H., et al.: Springer Berlin/Heidelberg. 630-638. doi: 10.1007/978-3-642-23896-3_78.
Li, Licun, and Yanqiu Xing. 2011. Study on Forest Type Classification Based on Icesat-Glas Lidar Data. 2nd International Conference on Artificial Intelligence, Management Science and Electronic Commerce (AIMSEC). 8-10 August, 2011. 3379-3382.
Liu, C., N. Cai, and H. Wu. 2011. Biomass Estimation Based on the Fusion of Icesat Glas and Modis Data in the Chongming Eastern Tidal Flat of the Yangtze River. 2011 International Symposium on Image and Data Fusion, 1-4, 9-11 August 2011.
Los, S. O., et al. 2011. Vegetation Height Products between 60° S and 60° N from Icesat Glas Data. Geoscientific Model Development Discussions 4(3): 2327-2363. doi: 10.5194/gmdd-4-2327-2011.
Miller, M. E., M. Lefsky, and Y. Pang. 2011. Optimization of Geoscience Laser Altimeter System Waveform Metrics to Support Vegetation Measurements. Remote Sensing of Environment 115(2): 298-305. doi: 10.1016/j.rse.2010.09.002.
Molijn, R. A., R. C. Lindenbergh, and B. C. Gunter. 2011. Icesat Laser Full Waveform Analysis for the Classification of Land Cover Types over the Cryosphere. International Journal of Remote Sensing 32(23): 8799-8822. doi: 10.1080/01431161.2010.547532.
Nuth, C. and A. Kääb. 2011. Co-registration and Bias Corrections of Satellite Elevation Data Sets for Quantifying Glacier Thickness Change. The Cryosphere 5: 271-290, doi:10.5194/tc-5-271-2011.
Palm, S. P., Y. Yang, J. D. Spinhirne, and A. Marshak. 2011. Satellite Remote Sensing of Blowing Snow Properties over Antarctica. J. Geophys. Res. 116(D16): D16123. doi: 10.1029/2011jd015828.
Pfeifer, M., M. Disney, T. Quaife, and R. Marchant. 2011. Terrestrial Ecosystems from Space: A Review of Earth Observation Products for Macroecology Applications. Global Ecology and Biogeography. doi: 10.1111/j.1466-8238.2011.00712.x.
Popescu, S. C., K. Zhao, A. Neuenschwander, and C. Lin. 2011. Satellite Lidar Vs. Small Footprint Airborne Lidar: Comparing the Accuracy of Aboveground Biomass Estimates and Forest Structure Metrics at Footprint Level. Remote Sensing of Environment 115(11): 2786-2797. doi: 10.1016/j.rse.2011.01.026.
Ren, D., R. Fu, L. M. Leslie, J. Chen, C. R. Wilson, and D. J. Karoly. 2011. The Greenland Ice Sheet Response to Transient Climate Change. Journal of Climate 24(13): 3469-3483. doi: 10.1175/2011jcli3708.1.
Rinne, E., A. Shepherd, A. Muir, and D. Wingham. 2011. A Comparison of Recent Elevation Change Estimates of the Devon Ice Cap as Measured by the ICESat and EnviSAT Satellite Altimeters. IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing. 49 (6):1902-1910. doi: 10.1109/TGRS.2010.2096472.
Rinne, E. J., A. Shepherd, S. Palmer, M. R. van den Broeke, A. Muir, J. Ettema, and D. Wingham. 2011. On the Recent Elevation Changes at the Flade Isblink Ice Cap, Northern Greenland. J. Geophys. Res. 116(F3): F03024. doi: 10.1029/2011jf001972.
Rott, H., F. Müller, T. Nagler, and D. Floricioiu. 2011. The Imbalance of Glaciers after Disintegration of Larsen-B Ice Shelf, Antarctic Peninsula. Cryosphere 5(1): 125-134. doi: 10.5194/tc-5-125-2011.
Rott, H., F. Mueller, T. Nagler, D. Floricioiu, and M. Eineder. 2011. Mass Deficit of Glaciers at the Northern Antarctic Peninsula Derived from Satellite Borne Sar and Altimeter Measurements. In Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium (IGARSS), 2011 IEEE International, 24-29 July 2011. 3645-3648.
Scambos, T. A., E. Berthier, and C. A. Shuman. 2011. The Triggering of Subglacial Lake Drainage During Rapid Glacier Drawdown: Crane Glacier, Antarctic Peninsula. Annals of Glaciology 52(59): 74-82.
Shtain, Z., and S. Filin. 2011. Accuracy and Reliability Assessment of GLAS Measurements over Israel. ISPRS Workshop Laser Scanning 2011, Calgary, Alberta.
Shuman, C. A., E. Berthier, and T. A. Scambos. 2011. 2001–2009 Elevation and Mass Losses in the Larsen A and B Embayments, Antarctic Peninsula. Journal of Glaciology 57(204): 737-754.
Siegfried, M. R., R. L. Hawley, and J. F. Burkhart. 2011. High-Resolution Ground-Based Gps Measurements Show Intercampaign Bias in Icesat Elevation Data near Summit, Greenland. IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing, 49(9): 3393-3400.
Simard, M., N. Pinto, J. B. Fisher, and A. Baccini. 2011. Mapping Forest Canopy Height Globally with Spaceborne Lidar, Journal of Geophysical Research, 116: G04021, doi:10.1029/2011JG001708.
Toutin, T. 2011. Digital Elevation Model Generation over Glacierized Region. In Encyclopedia of Snow, Ice and Glaciers, edited by Singh, P. H., Umesh Kumar Dordrecht, Netherlands: Springer.
Wang, X.W., X. Cheng, P. Gong, H. B. Huang, Z. Li and X. W. Li. 2011. Earth Science Applications of ICESat/GLAS: a Review, International Journal of Remote Sensing 32(23): 8837-8864, doi: 10.1080/01431161.2010.547533.
Wen, H., G. Zhu, P. Cheng, X. Chang, and H. Liu. 2011. The Ice Sheet Height Changes and Mass Variations in Antarctica by Using Icesat and Grace Data. International Journal of Image and Data Fusion. 2(3): 255-265. doi: 10.1080/19479832.2010.491803.
Xiaodong, W., et al. 2011. Retrieval of Sea Ice Thickness of Ross Sea with Icesat/Glas Measurements. International Conference on Remote Sensing, Environment and Transportation Engineering (RSETE 2011), 4381-4384.
Yu, J. 2011. Temporal Variations of Antarctic Blue Ice Extent: A Possible Mass Balance Indicator. Polar Record 47:348-355. doi: 10.1017/S0032247411000131
Yu, Jaehyung, Hongxing Liu, Lei Wang, Kenneth C. Jezek and Joonghyeok Heo. 2011. Blue Ice Areas and Their Topographical Properties in the Lambert Glacier, Amery Iceshelf System Using Landsat Etm+, Icesat Laser Altimetry and Aster Gdem Data. Antarctic Science-First View, 1-16. doi:10.1017/S0954102011000630.
Zhang, G., H. Xie, S. Duan, M. Tian, and D. Yi. 2011. Water Level Variation of Lake Qinghai from Satellite and in situ Measurements under Climate Change. Journal of Applied Remote Sensing 5, 053532. doi:10.1117/1.3601363.
Zhang, G., H. Xie, S. Kang, D. Yi, and S. F. Ackley. 2011. Monitoring Lake Level Changes on the Tibetan Plateau Using Icesat Altimetry Data (2003-2009). Remote Sensing of Environment 115(7): 1733-1742. doi: 10.1016/j.rse.2011.03.005.
2010
Alberti, M., and D. Biscaro. 2010. Height Variation Detection in Polar Regions from ICESat Satellite Altimetry. Computers & Geosciences 36(1): 1-9.
Ballagh, Lisa M., Bruce H. Raup, Ruth E. Duerr, Siri Jodha S. Khalsa, Christopher Helm, Doug Fowler, and Amruta Gupte. 2010. Representing Scientific Data Sets in KML: Methods and Challenges. Computers & Geosciences 37(1): 57-64.
Berthier E., E. Schiefer, G. K. C. Clarke, B. Menounos, and F. Remy. 2010. Contribution of Alaskan Glaciers to Sea Level Rise Derived from Satellite Imagery. Nature Geoscience 3(2): 92-95, doi:10.1038/ngeo737.
Brunt, K. M., H. A. Fricker, L. Padman, T. A. Scambos, and S. O'Neel. 2010. Mapping the Grounding Zone of the Ross Ice Shelf, Antarctica, Using ICESat Laser Altimetry. Annals of Glaciology 51(55): 71-79.
Chen, Q. 2010. Assessment of Terrain Elevation Derived from Satellite Laser Altimetry Over Mountainous Forest Areas Using Airborne Lidar Data. ISPRS Journal of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing 65(1): 111-122.
Chen, Q. 2010. Retrieving Canopy Height of Forests and Woodlands Over Mountainous Areas in the Pacific Coast Region Using Satellite Laser Altimetry. Remote Sensing of Environment, doi:10.1016/j.rse.2010.02.016.
Chen, Q. 2010. Retrieving Vegetation Height of Forests and Woodlands over Mountainous Areas in the Pacific Coast Region Using Satellite Laser Altimetry. Remote Sensing of Environment 114(7): 1610-1627. doi: 10.1016/j.rse.2010.02.016.
Doi, K., K. Shibuya, Y. Aoyama, H. Ikeda, and Y. Fukuda. 2010. Observed Gravity Change at Syowa Station Induced by Antarctic Ice Sheet Mass Change. Gravity, Geoid and Earth Observation 135(7): 557-562.
Dolan, K. A., G. C. Hurtt, J. Q. Chambers, R. O. Dubayah, S. Frolking, and J. G. Masek. 2010. Using ICESat's Geoscience Laser Altimeter System (GLAS) to Assess Large-scale Forest Disturbance Caused by Hurricane Katrina. Remote Sensing of Environment 115(1): 86-96.
Duncanson, L. I., K. O. Niemann, and M. A. Wulder. 2010. Estimating Forest Canopy Height and Terrain Relief from GLAS Waveform Metrics. Remote Sensing of Environment 114(1): 138-154.
Duncanson, L. I., K. O. Niemann, and M. A. Wulder. 2010. Integration of GLAS and Landsat TM data for Aboveground Biomass Estimation. Canadian Journal of Remote Sensing 36(2): 129-141.
Fricker, H. A., T. Scambos, S. Carter, C. Davis, T. Haran, and I. Joughin. 2010. Synthesizing Multiple Remote-Sensing Techniques for Subglacial Hydrologic Mapping: Application to a Lake System Beneath MacAyeal Ice Stream, West Antarctica. Journal of Glaciology 56(196): 187-199.
Goetz, S. J., M. Sun, A. Baccini, and P. S. A. Beck. 2010. Synergistic Use of Spaceborne Lidar and Optical Imagery for Assessing Forest Disturbance: An Alaska Case Study. Journal of Geophysical Research-Biogeosciences 115: G00e07.
Gonzalez, J. H., M. Bachmann, R. Scheiber, and G. Krieger. 2010. Definition of ICESat Selection Criteria for Their Use as Height References for TanDEM-X. Geoscience and Remote Sensing, IEEE Transactions 48(6): 2750-2757.
Humbert, A. 2010. The Temperature Regime of Fimbulisen, Antarctica. Annals of Glaciology 51(55): 56-64.
Jansen, D., B. Kulessa, P. R. Sammonds, A. Luckman, E. King, and N. F. Glasser. 2010. Present Stability of the Larsen C Ice Shelf, Antarctic Peninsula. Journal of Glaciology 56(198): 593-600.
Kuwano-Yoshida, A., T. Enomoto, and W. Ohfuchi. 2010. An Improved Pdf Cloud Scheme for Climate Simulations. Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society 136(651): 1583-1597. doi: 10.1002/qj.660.
Lindstrot, R., R. Preusker, and J. Fischer. 2010. Empirical Correction of Stray Light Within the MERIS Oxygen A Band Channel. Journal of Atmospheric and Oceanic Technology 27(7): 1185-1194.
Luckman, A., L. Padman, and D. Jansen. 2010. Persistent Iceberg Groundings in the Western Weddell Sea, Antarctica. Remote Sensing of Environment 114(2): 385-391.
Moholdt, G., J. O. Hagen, T. Eiken, and T. V. Schuler. 2010. Geometric Changes and Mass Balance of the Austfonna Ice Cap, Svalbard. The Cryosphere 4(1): 21-34.
Moholdt, G., C. Nuth, J. O. Hagen, and J. Kohler. 2010. Recent Elevation Changes of Svalbard Glaciers Derived from ICESat Laser Altimetry. Remote Sensing of Environment 114(11): 2756-2767.
North, P. R. J., J. A. B. Rosette, J. C. Suarez, and S. O. Los. 2010. A Monte Carlo Radiative Rransfer Model of Satellite Waveform LiDAR. International Journal of Remote Sensing 31(5): 1343-1358.
Nuth, C., G. Moholdt, J. Kohler, J. O. Hagen, and A. Kääb. 2010. Svalbard Glacier Elevation Changes and Contribution to Sea Level Rise. Journal of Geophysical Research 115(F01008), doi:10.1029/2008JF001223.
Pirotti, F. 2010. Icesat/Glas Waveform Signal Processing for Ground Cover Classification: State of the Art. Rivista Italiana di Telerilevamento 42(2): 13-26.
Renganathan, V. 2010. Arctic Sea Ice Freeboard Heights from Satellite Altimetry. Dissertation, Dept. of Geomatics Engineering, University of Calgary, Calgary. 193 p., ill. (some col.), maps (some col.).
Rosette, J. A. B., P. R. J. North, J. C. Suarez, and S. O. Los. 2010. Uncertainty Within Satellite LiDAR Estimations of Vegetation and Topography. International Journal of Remote Sensing 31(5): 1325-1342.
Shuman, C. A., et al. 2010. Elevation Change of Drangajökull, Iceland from Cloud-Cleared Icesat Repeat Profiles and Gps Ground-Survey Data. 66th Eastern Snow Conference, Niagara-on-the-Lake, Ontario, Canada. 1: 115-127.
Tsutomu, Y., D. Koichiro, and S. Kazuo. 2010. Combined Use of InSAR and GLAS Data to Produce an Accurate DEM of the Antarctic Ice Sheet: Examplefrom the Breivika-Asuka Station Area. Polar Science 4(1): 1-17.
Xing, Y. Q., A. de Gier, J. J. Zhang, and L. H. Wang. 2010. An Improved Method for Estimating Forest Canopy Height Using ICESat-GLAS Full Waveform Data Over Sloping Terrain: A Case Study in Changbai Mountains, China. International Journal of Applied Earth Observation and Geoinformation 12(5): 385-392.
Wen, Jiahong, et al. 2010. Basal Melting and Freezing Under the Amery Ice Shelf, East Antarctica. Journal of Glaciology 56(195): 81-90.
Williams, S., and A. M. Howard. 2010. Developing Monocular Visual Pose Estimation for Arctic Environments. Journal of Field Robotics 27(2): 145-157. doi: 10.1002/rob.20325.
Wu, H., and Y. Xing. 2010. Wavelet Transform and Its Application to Icesat-Glas Full Waveform Data. In 2010 International Symposium on Intelligence Information Processing and Trusted Computing (IPTC), 28-29 Oct. 2010. 373-377. doi: 10.1109/IPTC.2010.38.
Yu, J. Y., H. X. Liu, K. C. Jezek, R. C. Warner, and J. H. Wen. 2010. Analysis of Velocity Field, Mass Balance, and Basal Melt of the Lambert Glacier-Amery Ice Shelf System by Incorporating Radarsat SAR Interferometry and ICESat Laser Altimetry Measurements. Journal of Geophysical Research-Solid Earth 115:B11102.
Zhao, G., H. Xue, and F. Ling. 2010. Assessment of ASTER GDEM Performance by Comparing with SRTM and ICESat/GLAS Data in Central China. Paper read at 2010 18th International Conference on Geoinformatics, at Beijing.
