Calving front positions for 42 key glaciers of the Antarctic Peninsula Ice Sheet: a sub-seasonal record from 2013 to 2023 based on deep-learning application to Landsat multi-spectral imagery

Loebel, Erik; Baumhoer, Celia A.; Dietz, Andreas; Scheinert, Mirko; Horwath, Martin

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-17-65-2025

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Articles | Volume 17, issue 1

Data description paper

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10 Jan 2025

Data description paper |

| 10 Jan 2025

Calving front positions for 42 key glaciers of the Antarctic Peninsula Ice Sheet: a sub-seasonal record from 2013 to 2023 based on deep-learning application to Landsat multi-spectral imagery

Erik Loebel, Celia A. Baumhoer, Andreas Dietz, Mirko Scheinert, and Martin Horwath

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https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-17-65-2025-supplement

Data sets

Glacier calving front locations for the Antarctic Peninsula Ice Sheet derived from remote sensing and deep learning from 2013 to 2023 Erik Loebel et al. https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.963725

Manually delineated glacier calving front locations of 27 marine-terminating glaciers from 2013 to 2021 Erik Loebel et al. https://doi.org/10.25532/OPARA-282

Manually delineated glacier calving front locations of 20 marine-terminating glaciers of the Antarctic Peninsula from 2013 to 2023 Erik Loebel et al. https://doi.org/10.25532/OPARA-581

Terminus area change of 42 key glaciers of the Antarctic Peninsula from 2013 to 2023 derived from remote sensing and deep learning Erik Loebel et al. https://doi.org/10.25532/OPARA-557

Model code and software

eloebel/glacier-front-extraction: Initial release v1.0.0 Erik Loebel https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7755774

eloebel/rectilinear-box-method: Initial release v1.0.0 Erik Loebel https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7738605

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Glacier calving front positions are important for understanding glacier dynamics and constraining ice modelling. We apply a deep-learning framework to multi-spectral Landsat imagery to create a calving front record for 42 key outlet glaciers of the Antarctic Peninsula Ice Sheet. The resulting data product includes 4817 calving front locations from 2013 to 2023 and achieves sub-seasonal temporal resolution.