This week we watched along with many across the globe, as pioneer European satellite ERS-2 finally made its journey back to earth after almost 30 years monitoring earth from the sky. For many current and former CPOM scientists, this was…
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Scientists have trained an artificial intelligence (AI) system to accurately map the surface area and outline of giant icebergs captured on satellite images in just one-hundredth of a second. It is a major advance on existing automated systems which struggle to distinguish icebergs from other features…
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Greenland and Antarctica are losing ice faster than in the 1990s and are both tracking the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s worst-case climate warming scenario. As a result, this will lead to an extra 17 centimetres of sea level…
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Seven areas of fast-flowing ice on the Antarctic Peninsula have been formally named after Earth observation satellites, following a request by CPOM scientist Anna Hogg. Dramatic changes in the shape of the Antarctic ice sheet have become emblematic of the…
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ESA’s Sentinel-1 mission has revealed exactly how fast Greenland’s glaciers are flowing into the Arctic Ocean. The research, published in The Cryosphere, used Sentinel-1 data to show that Greenland’s largest glacier has actually slowed down by 10% since 2012, but…
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Monitoring Antarctica from space has revealed how its ice is being lost to the oceans, providing crucial insight into the continent’s response to a warming climate. Scientists from CPOM the University of California San Diego and University of Maryland reviewed…
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A new project launched by the Institute for Research in Schools (IRIS) is offering students the chance to contribute to scientific understanding of the polar regions. Funded by the UK Space Agency, MELT will allow schools to monitor changes at…
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The largest remaining ice shelf on the Antarctic Peninsula lost 10% of its area when an iceberg four times the size of London broke free earlier this month. Since the 12 July 2017 breakaway, CPOM’s Dr Anna Hogg and Dr Hilmar Gudmundsson,…
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ESA satellites are monitoring a deep crack that continues to cut across the Larsen C ice shelf. When it eventually gives way, it will create one of the largest icebergs on record. Sentinel-1 now shows the crack in the ice…
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Radar mission Sentinel-1 continues to monitor the growing crack in Antarctica’s Larsen-C ice shelf, which is expected to produce a massive iceberg Two Sentinel-1 radar images from 7 and 14 April 2017 have been combined to reveal the growing…
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