1_Glacier surface velocity estimation in the West Kunlun Mountain range from L-band ALOS/PALSAR images using modified synthetic aperture radar offset-tracking procedure

• Glacier movement is closely related to changes in climatic, hydrological, and geological factors.

• Detecting glacier surface flow velocity with conventional ground surveys is challenging.

• Remote sensing techniques, especially synthetic aperture radar (SAR), provide regular observations covering larger-scale glacier regions.

• This paper illustrated the technique extracting glacier surface flow velocity in the West Kunlun Mountains using modified offset-tracking techniques based on ALOS/PALSAR images.

• The offset detection applied cross correlation in the Fourier domain and global offset elimination of thin plate smooth splines.