The cryosphere plays a key role in the earth system, through its large impact of fluxes of energy and water. Changes in the cryosphere are important indicators of climate change that have profound implications for sea-level rise, water resources, agriculture, and biodiversity. As frozen regions of the world are often less accessible for conducting field measurements, remote sensing methods are an essential component of observations in these regions. Recently launched satellite and airborne instrumentation, along with increasingly available historical datasets, allow for unprecedented detail in observable cryospheric system properties and temporal changes. These include but are not limited to high-resolution optical/thermal remote sensing, active and passive microwave remote sensing, satellite/airborne altimetry, and gravimetry, which greatly enhance our understanding of cryospheric processes by providing spatially and temporally continuous data over a wide spatial extent.
With the advances of new remote sensing techniques and computational methods, remote sensing has become a primary tool to study the cryospheric changes and processes, such as ice sheet and glacier dynamics, sea ice dynamics, snow cover changes, and permafrost landscapes. The goal of this Research Topic is to collect recent advances in remote sensing methods and applications for studying cryospheric changes and processes.
We welcome article submissions with focus on remote sensing methods and applications in cryospheric research, from a diversity of sensor types (spaceborne, airborne, and ground-based) and applications in the study of ice sheets, glaciers, sea ice, snow, and permafrost, including for example:
• Remote sensing methods and algorithm development for studying various cryospheric problems;
• Evaluation of cryospheric remote sensing products against field observations, modeling outputs, etc. and
• Scientific analysis of various remote sensing datasets for understanding specific cryospheric processes, mechanisms, and climatic drivers.
The cryosphere plays a key role in the earth system, through its large impact of fluxes of energy and water. Changes in the cryosphere are important indicators of climate change that have profound implications for sea-level rise, water resources, agriculture, and biodiversity. As frozen regions of the world are often less accessible for conducting field measurements, remote sensing methods are an essential component of observations in these regions. Recently launched satellite and airborne instrumentation, along with increasingly available historical datasets, allow for unprecedented detail in observable cryospheric system properties and temporal changes. These include but are not limited to high-resolution optical/thermal remote sensing, active and passive microwave remote sensing, satellite/airborne altimetry, and gravimetry, which greatly enhance our understanding of cryospheric processes by providing spatially and temporally continuous data over a wide spatial extent.
With the advances of new remote sensing techniques and computational methods, remote sensing has become a primary tool to study the cryospheric changes and processes, such as ice sheet and glacier dynamics, sea ice dynamics, snow cover changes, and permafrost landscapes. The goal of this Research Topic is to collect recent advances in remote sensing methods and applications for studying cryospheric changes and processes.
We welcome article submissions with focus on remote sensing methods and applications in cryospheric research, from a diversity of sensor types (spaceborne, airborne, and ground-based) and applications in the study of ice sheets, glaciers, sea ice, snow, and permafrost, including for example:
• Remote sensing methods and algorithm development for studying various cryospheric problems;
• Evaluation of cryospheric remote sensing products against field observations, modeling outputs, etc. and
• Scientific analysis of various remote sensing datasets for understanding specific cryospheric processes, mechanisms, and climatic drivers.