Map of the rate of elevation change of Mont-Blanc glaciers derived from Pléiades stereo-images
Creators
- 1. LEGOS, Université de Toulouse, CNES, CNRS, IRD, UPS, Toulouse, France
Description
This collection contains three map of elevation changes derived form Pléiades images acquired in 2012, 2021 and 2022 over the Mont-Blanc Massif (Alps) with a horizontal grid spacing of 4 m. They were derived from stereo-pairs acquired 19 August 2012, 15 August 2021, 12 October 2022, 8 August 2022 and 5 October 2022. No data are indicated by the -9999 value.
We generated 4-m DEMs from five Pléiades stereo-pairs using the semi-global matching algorithm of the Ames Stereo Pipeline (Beyer et al., 2018) and the set of parameters defined in Deschamps-Berger et al. (2020). The DEMs were first coregistered on stable terrain, masking out glacierized areas using a glacier inventory from year 2015 (Paul et al., 2020). Spatially-coherent biases in the elevation difference maps were next corrected using a polynomial fit across-track and a spline fit in the along-track direction (Falaschi et al., 2023).
Pléiades stereo-images were obtained thanks to DINAMIS Project, for “Dispositif Institutionnel National d’Approvisionnement Mutualisé en Imagerie Satellitaire”, a French platform that acquires and distributes very high resolution Earth satellite imagery for French and foreign institutional users under specific subscription conditions.