Strategies for High Precision Processing of GPS Measurements with Application to the Amery Ice Shelf,East Antarctica |
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| Authors: | Matt King Lau N Nguyen Richard Coleman Peter Morgan |
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| Institution: | (1) Centre for Spatial Information Science, University of Tasmania, GPO Box 252-76, Hobart, Tasmania 7001, Australia, AU;(2) School of Computing, University of Canberra, Canberra, ACT 2601, Australia, AU |
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| Abstract: | A number of statistic Global Positioning System (GPS) measurement campaigns have been made on a floating Antarctic ice shelf,
the Amery Ice Shelf, as part of ongoing glaciological studies designed to investigate the ice shelf dynamics, grounding zone
definition, and ice shelf strain. Such studies ar fundamental to improving out knowledge of the Antarctic ice-sheet mass balance
and dynamical models of ice sheet/ocean interaction. This article describes two techniques used to process the statistic GPS
data. One approach uses a segmented version of the classical static methodology, and the other approach adopts a new sequential
processing technique. Both approaches yield similar results for the station coordinates and demonstrate the potential of GPS
for extracting the tidal signal on the ice shelves and giving information on the dynamical motion of the ice sheet. To verify
our results for the vertical component, we compare the ice shelf GPS tidal signal with a tidal model derived from tide gauge
measurements at nearby Beaver Lake. Comparison of the GPS results with the tide model give good agreement in amplitude at
the few cm level (GPS results always larger) but clearly shows evidence of phase propagation of the ocean tidal wave under
the ice shelf. Improving the resolution of the tides over the ice shelves will be of tremendous benefit for future satellite
missions, such as Ice, Cloud and Land Elevation Satellite (ICESAT), and the integrated use of GPS and satellite data will
be fundamental for any on-going Antarctic ice sheet mass balance studies. ? 2000 John Wiley & Sons, Inc. |
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