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Where the White Continent Is Blue: Deep Learning Locates Bare Ice in Antarctica

Tollenaar, Veronica
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Zekollari, Harry
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Pattyn, Frank
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February 16, 2024
Geophysical Research Letters

In some areas of Antarctica, blue-colored bare ice is exposed at the surface. These blue ice areas (BIAs) can trap meteorites or old ice and are vital for understanding the climatic history. By combining multi-sensor remote sensing data (MODIS, RADARSAT-2, and TanDEM-X) in a deep learning framework, we map blue ice across the continent at 200-m resolution. We use a novel methodology for image segmentation with "noisy" labels to learn an underlying "clean" pattern with a neural network. In total, BIAs cover ca. 140,000 km2 (similar to 1%) of Antarctica, of which nearly 50% located within 20 km of the grounding line. There, the low albedo of blue ice enhances melt-water production and its mapping is crucial for mass balance studies that determine the stability of the ice sheet. Moreover, the map provides input for fieldwork missions and can act as constraint for other geophysical mapping efforts.

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research article
DOI
10.1029/2023GL106285
Web of Science ID

WOS:001157489500001

Author(s)
Tollenaar, Veronica
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Zekollari, Harry
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Pattyn, Frank
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Russwurm, Marc  
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Kellenberger, Benjamin
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Lhermitte, Stef
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Izeboud, Maaike
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Tuia, Devis  
Date Issued

2024-02-16

Publisher

Amer Geophysical Union

Published in
Geophysical Research Letters
Volume

51

Issue

3

Article Number

e2023GL106285

Subjects

Physical Sciences

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Blue Ice

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Antarctica

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Deep Learning

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Noisy Labels

Peer reviewed

REVIEWED

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EPFL

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ECEO  
FunderGrant Number

Fonds de la Recherche Scientifique (FNRS)

Dutch Research Council (NWO)

ALWGO.2018.043

NVIDIA

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February 23, 2024
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