Ha. Phillips et Sw. Laxon, TRACKING OF ANTARCTIC TABULAR ICEBERGS USING PASSIVE MICROWAVE RADIOMETRY, International journal of remote sensing, 16(2), 1995, pp. 399-405
Passive microwave images of Antarctica from the Special Sensor Microwa
ve Imager (SSM/I) are used to track two giant tabular icebergs that or
iginated from the Larsen ice shelf in 1986. Since microwave radiation
is relatively insensitive to weather and unaffected by lighting condit
ions, the SSM/I instrument provides all-weather, year-round viewing. T
he icebergs are visible almost every day giving an ideal temporal reso
lution for tracking their motion. One of the icebergs was tracked unti
l October 1988, six months after its last position noted in the Navy/N
OAA Joint Ice Centre ice charts. The tracks of both icebergs reveal mo
tion in sympathy with observed oceanographic currents and eddies.