Sentences with phrase «advanced synthetic aperture radar»

Now, with 10 years of observations using its Advanced Synthetic Aperture Radar, ASAR, Envisat has mapped an additional loss in Larsen B's area of 1,790 sq km (690 square miles) over the past decade.»

Not exact matches

Advances in glacier ice flow mapping using repeat satellite images, and later using interferometric synthetic aperture radar SAR methods, facilitated the mass budget approach, although this still requires an estimate of snow input and a cross-section of the glacier as it flows out from the continent and becomes floating ice.

Sentinel - 1A / B operate a synthetic aperture radar (SAR) with advanced observation capabilities in all weather conditions over the ocean (wind, waves, and surface current) and sea ice field (sea ice deformation, lead fraction and sea ice drift).

Joughin, I., B. E. Smith, and W. Abdalati, Glaciological advances made with interferometric synthetic aperture radar, J. Glaciol., 56 (200), 1026 - 1042, 2010.