GeoHyd Lunch Seminar: Measuring glacier dynamics by optical and SAR satellite image time series

Welcome to our GeoHyd Lunch Seminar on Tuesday 7th of April @ 12:15 in Aud. 2 in the Geology Building. The seminar is held by Emmanuel Trouvé (Savoie Mont-Blanc University).

OBS! please note that the Geology Building now requires an access card, but that you can ring the bell to get in.

Seminar by: Emmanuel Trouvé, Professor, Savoie Mont-Blanc University, France.

Measuring glacier dynamics by optical and SAR satellite image time series

 

Abstract: The "Computer Science and Information Processing Laboratory" (LISTIC) of University Savoie Mont-Blanc (Annecy, France) has been working for more than 20 years on data fusion and information extraction from remote sensing images. This presentation will focus on the measurement of surface displacement fields from optical (Landsat, SPOT) and RaDAR (ERS, TerraSAR-X/PAZ and Sentinel-1) images over Alpine glaciers. After introducing the main techniques (offset tracking, InSAR...) to compute 1D or 2D displacement fields, we will present different strategies to combine them to derive 3D displacement fields and to reduce uncertainty of annual or intra-annual measures. Results are illustrated on High Mountain Asia glacier velocities and on the Mont-Banc massif in the Alps.

References :

  • Cavalié O., Trouvé E. (2022). Surface displacement measurement from remote sensing images. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, coll. « Sciences », domaine « Image », ISBN:9781789450835, 416 p.
  • Charrier L., Yan Y., Koeniguer E., Leinss S., Trouvé E. (2022). Extraction of velocity time series with an optimal temporal sampling from displacement observation networks. IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing, vol. 60, pp. 1-10, • Dehecq A., Gourmelen N., Trouvé E. (2015). Deriving large-scale glacier velocities from a complete satellite archive : Application to the Pamir-Karakoram-Himalaya. Remote Sensing of Environment, 162, 55 66.
  • Fallourd R., Harant O., Trouvé E., Nicolas J.M., Tupin F., Gay M., Vasile G., Bombrun L., Walpersdorf A., Serafini J., Cotte N., Vernier F., Moreau L. Bolon P. (2011). Monitoring temperate glacier by multi-temporal TerraSAR-X images and continuous GPS measurements. IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and Remote Sensing, vol. 4, n° 2, 372-386.

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The GeoHyd seminars are normally held in Auditorium 2 in the Geology Building, Blindern (map) but it is also possible to follow some of the seminars on Zoom.

Videolink to the lectures will be sent to the e-mail list geohyd-alle@geo and geohyd-info@geo. If you want to subscribe to the geohyd-info@geo mailing list send an email to Anita Sørlie.

 

About the seminar series

The talks in GeoHyd Lunch Seminar Series are offered by the Section for Geography and Hydrology (GeoHyd), Dept. of Geosciences, University of Oslo. The seminars are announced as lunch seminars so bring your lunch if you want to. 

The seminars are open for everyone interested, and especially students are welcome. 

The Lunch Seminar Team​​​
– Regine, Andi and Anita

Published Apr. 7, 2026 9:44 AM - Last modified Apr. 7, 2026 9:44 AM