SPOT 5 stereoscopic survey of Polar Ice: Reference Images and Topographies Workshop - 29 & 30 April 2010 Room Coriolis
Observatoire Midi-Pyrénées 14 avenue Edouard Belin 31400 Toulouse
Talks will be ~20 mn + 5 mn for questions/discussions
Thursday 29 April 9h30 Welcome (coffee). 9h45 : Introduction Eric Brun, Météo France, President of the International Glaciological Society
SPIRIT & future satellite missions Chairman: E. Berthier 10h00-10h25 SPIRIT & the GIIPSY International Polar Year program Eric Thouvenot, CNES, France 10h25-10h50 The SPIRIT project. Goals and Achievements Marc Bernard, Spot Image, France 10h50-11h15 SPOT5-HRS geometric performance Alain Orsoni, IGN Espace, France 11h15-11h40 Status of the Tandem-X DLR mission Daniel Schulze, German Aerospace Center & ETH, Germany 11h40-12h05 The future: access to the SPIRIT data through the ISIS program and status of the Pleiades mission. Marc Bernard, Spot Image, France 12h15-12h25 SPIRIT follow on? Open discussion Etienne Berthier, LEGOS, France 12h25-14h00 : LUNCH (offered, in the Coriolis room)
Antarctic Ice Sheet Chairman: I. Howat 14h00-14h25 A Need for SPIRIT DEMs to Quantify Antarctic Ice Sheet Discharge Robert Bindschadler, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, US 14h25-14h50 Comparison of ICESAT, SPIRIT DEM and ERS DEM over the Mertz Glacier Lydie Lescarmontier & Benoit Legrésy, LEGOS, France 14h50-15h20 Overview of the topography of the ice sheets and ice shelves. New measurements and current limitations. Jennifer Griggs & Jonathan Bamber, University of Bristol, UK 15h20-15h45 : Coffee Break
Chairman: R. Bindschadler 15h45-16h10 Inland rapid response of Antarctic outlet glaciers Frédérique Rémy, LEGOS, France 16h10-16h35 How to make the most of a high resolution DEM (SPIRIT) over an Antarctic outlet glacier, test case of the Astrolabe glacier in the Terre Adelie sector Emmanuel Le Meur, LGGE, France 16h35-17h00 Consistent patterns of volume and mass variations of the Antarctic ice sheet from ENVISAT radar altimetry and GRACE satellite gravimetry Martin Horwath, LEGOS, France 18h30 : Reception at the Capitole city hall (downtown Toulouse)
Friday 30 April Polar Ice Sheets Chairman: E. Le Meur 9h15-9h45 Sea level budget over the altimetry era Anny Cazenave, LEGOS, France 9h45-10h10 Mapping surface elevation and elevation change of the Greenland Ice Sheet Ian Howat, Ohio State University, US 10h10-10h35 Z-Earth: Earth Dynamic Topography from Space Thomas Dewez (BRGM, France) & the Z-Earth Consortium 10h35-11h00 : Coffee Break
Mountain Glaciers and Ice Caps Chairman: R. Wheate 11h-11h25 On the use of SPIRIT DEM to assess geometric changes of Svalbard ice masses Andreas Kääb, University of Oslo, Norway 11h25-11h50 Secular gravity variations at Svalbard, Norway, from ground and satellite data: effects of glacier topography Anthony Memin, EOST Strasbourg, France 11h50-12h15 Ice-volcano interactions in Eyjafjallajökull volcano, Iceland Eyjolfur Magnusson, University of Iceland 12h15-13h45 : LUNCH (offered, in the Coriolis room)
Mountain Glaciers and Ice Caps (continuing) Chairman: A. Kääb 13h45-14h10 Stereo SPOT-5 and Radarsat-2 for DEM generation over Canadian northern glaciers T. Toutin, Canadian Center for Remote Sensing, Canada 14h10-14h35 Elevation changes in the glaciers of the North Coast Mountains in British Columbia Roger Wheate, University of Northern British Columbia, Canada 14h35-15h00 Sea level rise contribution of Alaskan glacier: improved estimate from SPOT5 and ASTER DEMs Etienne Berthier, LEGOS, France 15h00-15h30: Coffee Break
Chairman: T. Toutin 15h30-15h55 Volume changes of ice caps in Iceland deduced from remote sensing and in-situ observations Sverrir Gudmundsson, University of Iceland 15h55-16h20 Using of DEM for reconstructions of mountain glaciers (Central Caucasus) Irina Bushueva, Moscow State University, Russia
