Bathymetric Mapping of Shallow Water in Thaw Lakes on the North Slope of Alaska with Spaceborne Imaging Radar
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Abstract
Few bathymetric maps are available for the thousands of thaw lakes on the North Slope of Alaska. We describe a semiautomated procedure for bathymetric mapping of water up to 2 m deep (i.e., less deep than the maximum ice thickness) in these lakes. A sequence of ERS-1 synthetic aperture radar (SAR) images and a simulated ice growth curve for winter 1991-92 are used to derive a digital elevation model of lake basins. The method is based on discriminating between floating ice and grounded ice in the SAR images to define raw isobaths; assigning an ice thickness or water depth to each isobath from the simulated ice-growth curve, and interpolating to create equally spaced (0.25 m) isobaths. There is modest agreement between SAR-derived maps and the few available bathymetric maps. Differences between the SAR maps and the original maps are probably unavoidable because of different production methods and original data formats. The concept of using SAR and a simulated ice-growth curve for bathymetric mapping of thaw lakes would benefit from verification based on a comparison with new maps derived from accurate field measurements at a selection of lakes with different morphological characteristics. Nevertheless, it is concluded that this technique is sound and could be used routinely for inexpensive and accurate bathymetric mapping across the entire North Slope and elsewhere (e.g., in Siberia, where large numbers of thaw lakes also occur). Such mapping would greatly increase the amount and spatial coverage of bathymetric data and would provide an accurate baseline against which to detect changes in the size, shape, bottom topography, and location of lakes.
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