ARCTICDEM - Blue Waters · POLAR GEOSPATIAL CENTER. Source: Polar Geospatial Center. PROJECT GOAL. Produce a 2m posting . publicly available . elevation model of the Arctic during

BLUE WATERS SYMPOSIUM 2018

ARCTICDEM2m Topography and Surface

Change Detection over the ArcticCLAIRE PORTER

POLAR GEOSPATIAL CENTER

Source: Polar Geospatial Center

PROJECT GOAL

Produce a 2m posting publicly available elevation model of the Arctic

during the US Chairmanship of the Arctic Council using DigitalGlobe stereo

imagery licensed by the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency


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1. Stereoscopic high-resolution imagery coverage

2. Scalable terrain extraction algorithm

3. Ridiculous compute resources

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STEREOSCOPIC IMAGERY


1. Iterative image matching, pyramid-based approach

2. Mass point calculation3. Filtering and interpolation

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DIGITALGLOBE CONSTELLATION

WorldView-2GeoEye QuickBird

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ARCTIC STEREO IMAGERY COLLECTIONS

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COMPUTE/STORAGEREQUIREMENTS

Total Source Strips 152,719

Total Image Overlaps 1,450,830

Node Hours 18,860,796

Source Imagery 659 terrabytes


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ArcticDEM Archive

Total Strip DEMs 136,978

Total Mosaic Tiles 2,482

Data Volume 420 terrabytes

Geographic Coverage 165 million km2

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STRIPSMAY 2017 JUNE 2018

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MOSAICSMAY 2017 JUNE 2018

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MOUNT OKMOK, ALEUTIAN ISLANDS, ALASKA

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SAINT LAWRENCE ISLAND, ALASKA

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Mass Loss

Pre-2012 -0.04 km3/yr

2015-2016 -4.48 km3/yr

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Nuugaatsiaq “Little Peak”, Greenland71° 32′ N, 53° 12′ W


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PUBLICATIONS

ArcticDEM Team Publications (3)

Dai, C., & Howat, I. M. (2018). Detection of Saturation in High-Resolution PushbroomSatellite Imagery. IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and Remote Sensing, 11(5), 1684–1693.

Noh, M.-J., & Howat, I. M. (2017). The Surface Extraction from TIN based Search-space Minimization (SETSM) algorithm. ISPRS Journal of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing, 129, 55–76. doi:10.1016/j.isprsjprs.2017.04.019

Noh, M.-J., & Howat, I. M. (2018). Automatic relative RPC image model bias compensation through hierarchical image matching for improving DEM quality. ISPRS Journal of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing, 136, 120–133. doi:10.1016/j.isprsjprs.2017.12.008

Publications using ArcticDEM (17)

Antonova, S., Sudhaus, H., Strozzi, T., Zwieback, S., Kääb, A., Heim, B., Langer, M., Bornemann, N., & Boike, J. (2018). Thaw Subsidence of a Yedoma Landscape in Northern Siberia, Measured In Situ and Estimated from TerraSAR-X Interferometry. Remote Sensing, 10(4), 494. doi:10.3390/rs10040494

Armstrong, W. H., Anderson, R. S., & Fahnestock, M. A. (2017). Spatial Patterns of Summer Speedup on South Central Alaska Glaciers. Geophysical Research Letters, 44(18), 9379–9388. doi:10.1002/2017GL074370

Banks, S., Millard, K., Behnamian, A., White, L., Ullmann, T., Charbonneau, F., Chen, Z., Wang, H., Pasher, J., & Duffe, J. (2017). Contributions of Actual and Simulated Satellite SAR Data for Substrate Type Differentiation and Shoreline Mapping in the Canadian Arctic. Remote Sensing, 9(12), 1206. doi:10.3390/rs9121206

Dai, C., Durand, M., Howat, I. M., Altenau, E. H., & Pavelsky, T. M. (2018). Estimating River Surface Elevation From ArcticDEM. Geophysical Research Letters, 45(7), 3107–3114. doi:10.1002/2018GL077379

Dai, C., & Howat, I. M. (2017). Measuring Lava Flows With ArcticDEM: Application to the 2012-2013 Eruption of Tolbachik, Kamchatka. Geophysical Research Letters, 44, 12,133-12,140. doi:10.1002/2017GL075920

Felikson, D., Bartholomaus, T. C., Catania, G. A., Korsgaard, N. J., Kjær, K. H., Morlighem, M., Noël, B., van den Broeke, M., Stearns, L. A., Shroyer, E. L., Sutherland, D. A., & Nash, J. D. (2017). Inland thinning on the Greenland ice sheet controlled by outlet glacier geometry. Nature Geoscience, 10(5), 366–369. doi:10.1038/ngeo2934

Gauthier, D., Anderson, S. A., Fritz, H. M., & Giachetti, T. (2018). Karrat Fjord (Greenland) tsunamigenic landslide of 17 June 2017: initial 3D observations. Landslides, 15(2), 327–332. doi:10.1007/s10346-017-0926-4

Haubner, K., Box, J. E., Schlegel, N. J., Larour, E. Y., Morlighem, M., Solgaard, A. M., Kjeldsen, K. K., Larsen, S. H., Rignot, E., Dupont, T. K., & Kjær, K. H. (2018). Simulating ice thickness and velocity evolution of Upernavik Isstrøm 1849–2012 by forcing prescribed terminus positions in ISSM. The Cryosphere, 12(4), 1511–1522. doi:10.5194/tc-12-1511-2018

Latifovic, R., Pouliot, D., & Campbell, J. (2018). Assessment of Convolution Neural Networks for Surficial Geology Mapping in the South Rae Geological Region, Northwest Territories, Canada. Remote Sensing, 10(2), 307. doi:10.3390/rs10020307

Lesnek, A. J., & Briner, J. P. (2018). Response of a land-terminating sector of the western Greenland Ice Sheet to early Holocene climate change: Evidence from 10 Be dating in the Søndre Isortoq region. Quaternary Science Reviews, 180, 145–156. doi:10.1016/j.quascirev.2017.11.028

Marcucci, E. C., Hamilton, C. W., & Herrick, R. R. (2017). Remote sensing evidence of lava–ground ice interactions associated with the Lost Jim Lava Flow, Seward Peninsula, Alaska. Bulletin of Volcanology, 79(12), 89. doi:10.1007/s00445-017-1176-y

Payne, C., Panda, S., & Prakash, A. (2018). Remote Sensing of River Erosion on the Colville River, North Slope Alaska. Remote Sensing, 10(3), 397. doi:10.3390/rs10030397

Rastner, P., Strozzi, T., & Paul, F. (2017). Fusion of Multi-Source Satellite Data and DEMs to Create a New Glacier Inventory for Novaya Zemlya. Remote Sensing, 9(11), 1122. doi:10.3390/rs9111122

Rutishauser, A., Blankenship, D. D., Sharp, M., Skidmore, M. L., Greenbaum, J. S., Grima, C., Schroeder, D. M., Dowdeswell, J. A., & Young, D. A. (2018). Discovery of a hypersaline subglacial lake complex beneath Devon Ice Cap, Canadian Arctic. Science Advances, 4(4). doi:10.1126/sciadv.aar4353

Sevestre, H., Benn, D. I., Luckman, A., Nuth, C., Kohler, J., Lindbäck, K., & Pettersson, R. (2018). Tidewater glacier surges initiated at the terminus. Journal of Geophysical Research: Earth Surface. doi:10.1029/2017JF004358

Whitley, M., Frost, G., Jorgenson, M., Macander, M., Maio, C., & Winder, S. (2018). Assessment of LiDAR and Spectral Techniques for High-Resolution Mapping of Sporadic Permafrost on the Yukon-Kuskokwim Delta, Alaska. Remote Sensing, 10(2), 258. doi:10.3390/rs10020258

Zheng, W., Pritchard, M. E., Willis, M. J., Tepes, P., Gourmelen, N., Benham, T. J., & Dowdeswell, J. A. (2018). Accelerating glacier mass loss on Franz Josef Land, Russian Arctic. Remote Sensing of Environment, 211, 357–375. doi:10.1016/j.rse.2018.04.004

ArcticDEM


TEAM

POLAR GEOSPATIAL CENTER

Paul MorinPrincipal Investigator

Claire PorterProject Manager

OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY

Ian HowatWorkflow Developer

Myong-Jong NohAlgorithm Development

COLLABORATORS

Michael WillisUniversity of Colorado - Boulder

Andy JohnsonNational Geospatial-Intelligence Agency

Erik HusbyQC and Production

Steve FogaProduction

Karen TomkoSoftware Engineer

Judith GardnerSoftware Engineer

claire [email protected]

www.arcticdem.org

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ARCTICDEM - Blue Waters · POLAR GEOSPATIAL CENTER. Source: Polar Geospatial Center. PROJECT GOAL. Produce a 2m posting . publicly available . elevation model of the Arctic during