Remote Sensing of Glaciers

Petri Pellikka obtained his B.Sc. and M.Sc. degrees at the University of Helsinki, Finland, specializing in Physical geography and Development geography. He carried out his Ph.D. studies at the University of Munich, Germany and at the University of Oulu, Finland, on airborne video camera sensor calibration and its application in studies of forest phenology in the German Alps. Dr. Pellikka has been a professor of geoinformatics at the Faculty of Science of the University of Helsinki since 2002. He leads the GeoInformatics Research Group of 10 researchers and Ph.D. students at the Department of Geosciences and Geography. His current research activities are on remote sensing of forest, land cover and land use changes in East Africa, particularly Kenya. He has published over 110 scientific papers and over 40 popular articles. Gareth Rees studied Natural Sciences as an undergraduate, specialising in Physics, and Radio Astronomy for his PhD, at the University of Cambridge. Since 1985 he has been a member of the academic staff at the Scott Polar Research Institute (SPRI), specialising in the application of spaceborne and airborne remote sensing techniques to the investigation of polar environments. He directs the Polar Landscape and Remote Sensing Group at SPRI. The work of this group includes field-based investigation of glaciers and ice caps in Svalbard and Iceland and laboratory-based studies of snow and terrestrial ice in other parts of the world including Siberia and the Caucasus Mountains. The group also has a major research focus on the dynamics of high-latitude vegetation (tundra and the northern part of the boreal forest) and its response to global climate change, and Dr Rees is the co-director of a core project of the International Polar Year that is investigating the Arctic treeline region. Dr Rees conducts frequent fieldwork in Svalbard and in northern Russia. He has published seven books and over 70 scientific

Foreword, Acknowledgments, Author biography, Preface: Remote sensing of glaciers – glaciological research using remote sensing, Abbreviations, 1 Principles of remote sensing, 2 The formation and dynamics of glaciers, 3 Glacier parameters monitored using remote sensing, 4 The early history of remote sensing of glaciers, 5 Physics of glacier remote sensing, 6 Terrestrial photogrammetry in glacier studies, 7 Aerial photogrammetry in glacier studies, 8 Optical remote sensing of glacier extent, 9 SAR imaging of glaciers, 10 Airborne laser scanning in glacier studies, 11 Ground-penetrating radar in glaciological applications, 12 Detection and visualization of glacier area changes, 13 Detection of distortions in digital elevation models: simultaneous data acquisition at Hintereisferner glacier, 14 Accuracy aspects in topographical change detection of glacier surface, 15 The role of remote sensing in worldwide glacier monitoring, 16 Conclusions, Copyrights for figures, Authors, Reviewers, Subject index, Colour plates