Aerial system obtains glacier data

A Chinese aerial remote sensing system has obtained effective mountain glacier detection data through an ongoing combined detection experiment.

The Chinese Academy of Sciences and Wuhan University are conducting a sky-ground scientific experiment to test the condition of glaciers in the Haibei Tibetan autonomous prefecture in Northwest Qinghai province.

The experiment has applied radars in three bands — P-band, L-band and Very High Frequency — and undertaken 11 flights, among which seven carried out tomography and interferometric imaging and four conducted perspective imaging.