CPOM publishes paper on ‘Multipeak retracking‘ introducing a new processing approach, aimed at overcoming challenges associated with using radar altimetry to measure ice sheet changes over rugged coastal topography in Antarctica and Greenland.
This new MultiPeak processing approach which is applied to data from the Copernicus Sentinel-3 mission, significantly improves the accuracy and quantity of elevation retrievals and and has the potential to enhance the capability of SAR altimeters to track ice sheet imbalance. This is an important step forward in developing more sophisticated monitoring approaches for tracking ice loss in the most complex regions which contribute to global seal level rise. The paper is co-authored by CPOM Senior Research Associate Dr Qi Huang (Lancaster University), CPOM Associate Investigator Professor Mal McMillan (Lancaster University), CPOM Systems, Data, Product Manager Alan Muir (UCL), CPOM Affiliate Joe Phillips (Lancaster University) and CPOM Research Fellow Dr Thomas Slater (Northumbria University).
