ESA - Sentinel-1 and AI uncover glacier crevasses

Scientists have developed a new Artificial Intelligence, or AI, technique using radar images from Europe’s Copernicus Sentinel-1 satellite mission, to reveal how the Thwaites Glacier Ice Tongue in West Antarctica is being damaged by squeezing and stretching as it flows from the middle of the continent to the coast. Being able to track fractures and crevasses in the ice beneath the overlying snow is key to better predicting the fate of floating ice tongues under climate change.

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ESA - Sentinel-1 and AI uncover glacier crevasses

Optical image of Kyagar Glacier on 29.03.2016 from the ESA Sentinel-2A

ESA - Pine Island and Thwaites Glaciers from Sentinel-1A

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ESA - Sentinel-1 and AI uncover glacier crevasses

ESA - Sentinel-1

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