The scientific legacy of NASA's Operation IceBridge

JA MacGregor, LN Boisvert, B Medley, AA Petty… - 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)'s Operation IceBridge
(OIB) was a 13‐year (2009–2021) airborne mission to survey land and sea ice across the …

Advanced multifrequency radar instrumentation for polar research

F Rodriguez-Morales, S Gogineni… - … on Geoscience and …, 2013 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper presents a radar sensor package specifically developed for wide-coverage
sounding and imaging of polar ice sheets from a variety of aircraft. Our instruments address …

High-altitude radar measurements of ice thickness over the Antarctic and Greenland ice sheets as a part of operation icebridge

J Li, J Paden, C Leuschen… - … on Geoscience and …, 2012 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) initiated a program called
Operation IceBridge for monitoring critical parts of Greenland and Antarctica with airborne …

Ice sheet bed mapping with airborne SAR tomography

X Wu, KC Jezek, E Rodriguez… - … on Geoscience and …, 2011 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
We develop and then demonstrate a 3-D tomographic ice sounding method applied to very
high frequency (VHF) radar data that produces swath measurements of ice sheet surface …

Firn clutter constraints on the design and performance of orbital radar ice sounders

R Culberg, DM Schroeder - IEEE Transactions on Geoscience …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Radar sounding is a powerful tool for constraining subglacial conditions, which influence the
mass balance of polar ice sheets and their contributions to global sea-level rise. A satellite …

An interferometric approach to cross-track clutter detection in two-channel VHF radar sounders

D Castelletti, DM Schroeder, S Hensley… - … on Geoscience and …, 2017 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Surface cross-track clutter can corrupt both earth and planetary radar sounder (RS)
observations preventing definitive interpretation of subsurface features, which are often of …

Direction-of-arrival estimation for radar ice sounding surface clutter suppression

U Nielsen, J Dall - IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and …, 2015 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Ice sounding radars are able to measure ice sheets by profiling their glaciological features
from the surface to the bedrock. The current airborne and, in particular, future space-based …

A modified wideband dipole antenna for an airborne VHF ice-penetrating radar

KJ Byers, AR Harish, SA Seguin… - IEEE transactions on …, 2012 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
A 15-element wideband dipole antenna array was developed for operation with the
Multichannel Coherent Radar Depth Sounder/Imager on board the National Aeronautics …

Radar mapping of isunnguata sermia, greenland

K Jezek, X Wu, J Paden, C Leuschen - Journal of Glaciology, 2013 - cambridge.org
Ice thickness estimates using advanced nadir sounding and tomographic radar processing
techniques are compared and combined in a study of Isunnguata Sermia glacier …

An approach to the assessment of detectability of subsurface targets in polar ice from satellite radar sounders

S Thakur, E Donini, F Bovolo… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
A satellite mission onboard a radar sounder for the observation of the earth's polar regions
can greatly support the monitoring of the cryosphere and climate change analyses. Several …