التفاصيل البيبلوغرافية
| العنوان: |
Supervised classification of slush and ponded water on Antarctic ice shelves using Landsat 8 imagery. |
| المؤلفون: |
Dell, Rebecca L., Banwell, Alison F., Willis, Ian C., Arnold, Neil S., Halberstadt, Anna Ruth W., Chudley, Thomas R., Pritchard, Hamish D. |
| المصدر: |
Journal of Glaciology; Apr2022, Vol. 68 Issue 268, p401-414, 14p |
| مصطلحات موضوعية: |
ANTARCTIC ice, LANDSAT satellites, K-means clustering, RANDOM forest algorithms, ICE shelves, MELTWATER |
| مستخلص: |
Surface meltwater is becoming increasingly widespread on Antarctic ice shelves. It is stored within surface ponds and streams, or within firn pore spaces, which may saturate to form slush. Slush can reduce firn air content, increasing an ice-shelf's vulnerability to break-up. To date, no study has mapped the changing extent of slush across ice shelves. Here, we use Google Earth Engine and Landsat 8 images from six ice shelves to generate training classes using a k-means clustering algorithm, which are used to train a random forest classifier to identify both slush and ponded water. Validation using expert elicitation gives accuracies of 84% and 82% for the ponded water and slush classes, respectively. Errors result from subjectivity in identifying the ponded water/slush boundary, and from inclusion of cloud and shadows. We apply our classifier to the Roi Baudouin Ice Shelf for the entire 2013–20 Landsat 8 record. On average, 64% of all surface meltwater is classified as slush and 36% as ponded water. Total meltwater areal extent is greatest between late January and mid-February. This highlights the importance of mapping slush when studying surface meltwater on ice shelves. Future research will apply the classifier across all Antarctic ice shelves. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR] |
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