A new way to map glaciers

American Geophysical Union had recently its big annual fall meeting in San Francisco. Here participated PhD fellow Solveig Havstad Winsvold, Department of Geosciences. She presented a new way to measure glaciers, now mentioned in an article by NASA SCIENCE.

This picture show the overlap between neighboring Landsat paths at glaciers in the Pamirs (Tajikistan/Kyrgyzstan). Photo: Winsvold et al

This picture show the overlap between neighboring Landsat paths at glaciers in the Pamirs (Tajikistan/Kyrgyzstan). Photo: Winsvold et al

Thursday 15 December, San Francisco: In her lecture at AGUs fall meeting, Solveig Havstad Winsvold presented a new method to measure glaciers with satellite images from the Lansat program. She uses time series from the Landsat data.

Solveig Havstad Winsvold. Photo: Geir Holm/UiO

Now her presentation and research with other colleagues at the Department of Geosciences, has been mentioned at NASA Sciences' websites.

Reference article:

Winsvold, S. H., Kääb, A., & Nuth, C. (2016). Regional Glacier Mapping Using Optical Satellite Data Time Series. IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and Remote Sensing, 9(8), 3698 – 3711.

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Solveig Havstad Winsvold, PhD fellow, Department of Geosciences

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AGU. Fall Meeting, San Francisco 11-16 December 2016

Published Dec. 16, 2016 11:44 PM - Last modified Jan. 18, 2023 2:13 PM