Amery Ice Shelf velocity time series from Landsat images

The images have been projected onto a common reference system, and spliced together in order to produce a seamless set of velocity values. Horizontal components of strain rate are derived from the velocity data using a set of derivative operators in a least-squares solution of an over-constrained set of equations, which uses all velocity values within a computation window. This procedure effectively produces a set of average velocity and strain rate values and accounts for much of the noise in the individual velocity observations.

Values of the local longitudinal, transverse and shear strain rate components are derived by rotation of the cartesian values to the local flow direction. The procedure is described in Young and Hyland (2002). This metadata record has been derived from work performed under the auspices of ASAC project 3067 (ASAC_3067).