Glacial Lake Mapping with Very High Resolution Space-borne SAR
1. Glacial Lake Mapping with very High Resolution Space-borne SAR Andreas Wiesmann 1 , Tazio Strozzi 1 , Andreas Kääb 2 1 GAMMA Remote Sensing AG, Switzerland 2 Dep. Geoscience University of Oslo, Norway
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4. GLOF in the context of High Alpine Risks Lake Blockage - Dam - Moraine - Landslide - Topography Glacier - runoff - melt - change Timely Occurance Spatially Event - Glacier ice breakoff - Dam break - Landslide - Mass balance change Hazard Change
10. DEMs for terrain-corrected geocoding Use SRTM4 for terrain-corrected geocoding of satellite SAR images if any other high-quality DEM (e.g. ~30 m posting and 3 m vertical accuracy) derived from 1:25’000 topographic maps is not available
15. Imja Tsho lake ERS-1/2 SAR May 1992 ERS-1/2 SAR Apr. 1996 ERS-1/2 SAR Jul. 2001 TerraSAR-X Apr. 2009 TerraSAR-X Oct. 2009 Google Earth May 2003 ALOS PALSAR Nov. 2007 ALOS PALSAR May 2008 ALOS PALSAR Nov. 2009
16. Lower Barun lake ERS-1/2 SAR May 1992 ERS-1/2 SAR Apr. 1996 ERS-1/2 SAR Jul. 2001 TerraSAR-X Apr. 2009 TerraSAR-X Oct. 2009 Google Earth Mar. 2004 ALOS PALSAR Nov. 2007 ALOS PALSAR May 2008 ALOS PALSAR Nov. 2009
17. Lumding Tsho lake ERS-1/2 SAR May 1992 ERS-1/2 SAR Apr. 1996 ERS-1/2 SAR Jul. 2001 TerraSAR-X Apr. 2009 TerraSAR-X Oct. 2009 Google Earth Feb. 2005 ALOS PALSAR Nov. 2007 ALOS PALSAR May 2008 ALOS PALSAR Nov. 2009
18. Tsho Rolpa lake ERS-1/2 SAR May 1992 ERS-1/2 SAR Apr. 1996 ERS-1/2 SAR Jul. 2001 TerraSAR-X Apr. 2009 TerraSAR-X Oct. 2009 Google Earth Feb. 2005 ALOS PALSAR Nov. 2007 ALOS PALSAR May 2008 ALOS PALSAR Nov. 2009
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20. Imja Tsho lake TerraSAR-X Apr. 2009 Field survey May 2009 TerraSAR-X Oct. 2009