ISPRS-Archives The International Archives of the Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing and Spatial Information Sciences ISPRS-Archives Int. Arch. Photogramm. Remote Sens. Spatial Inf. Sci. 2194-9034 Copernicus Publications Göttingen, Germany 10.5194/isprs-archives-XLI-B8-545-2016 CHANGE ANALYSIS OF ANTARCTIC ICE SHELVES BASED ON MULTIPLE REMOTE SENSING PRODUCTS Tian Yixiang 1 Weng Hexia 1 2 Lv Da 1 Tong Xiaohua 1 Li Rongxing 1 Center for Spatial Information Science and Sustainable Development Applications, College of Surveying and Geo-Informatics, Tongji University, China Colleague of Architecture and Survey Engineering, Jiangxi University of Science and Technology, China 23 06 2016 XLI-B8 545 547 Copyright: © 2016 Yixiang Tian et al. 2016 This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported License. To view a copy of this licence, visit https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ This article is available from https://isprs-archives.copernicus.org/articles/XLI-B8/545/2016/isprs-archives-XLI-B8-545-2016.html The full text article is available as a PDF file from https://isprs-archives.copernicus.org/articles/XLI-B8/545/2016/isprs-archives-XLI-B8-545-2016.pdf

The Antarctic ice sheet is well known as the most sensitive and key issue in the global climate change research and is playing a more and more important role for the global sea level change. Measurement of changes in area and mass of the Antarctic ice sheet is critically important and has been made by using different remote sensing technologies and ground exploration data. Sequential mapping of Antarctic boundaries provides a simple and direct method for measuring the area and volume if ice sheet or ice shelves advances or retreats in the Antarctic coasts. Our results show that the total ice shelf area is retreated between 1963 and 2009. However, the trend for each ice shelf is quite different.