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Kenneth C. Jezek is affiliated with The Ohio State University in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on Earth and Planetary Sciences with significant contributions in Atmospheric Science and Environmental Engineering subfields. The scientist's work covers key areas in cryospheric studies and observations, Arctic and Antarctic ice dynamics, and climate change and permafrost.

Their notable recent publications include:

  • The Scientific Legacy of NASA's Operation IceBridge, 2021, Reviews of Geophysics
  • Microwave Radiometry at Frequencies From 500 to 1400 MHz: An Emerging Technology for Earth Observations, 2021, IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and Remote Sensing
  • Greenland Ice Sheet Subsurface Temperature Estimation Using Ultrawideband Microwave Radiometry, 2021, IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing
  • Controls on Larsen C Ice Shelf Retreat From a 60-Year Satellite Data Record, 2022, Journal of Geophysical Research Earth Surface
  • Brief communication: Mapping Greenland's perennial firn aquifers using enhanced-resolution L-band brightness temperature image time series, 2020, The Cryosphere

Frequent coauthors in their work include:

  • Joel T. Johnson
  • Marco Brogioni
  • Giovanni Macelloni
  • Caglar Yardim
  • Leung Tsang

Jezek's research has appeared repeatedly in several publication venues, notably:

  • IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing
  • The Cryosphere
  • IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Letters
  • Reviews of Geophysics
  • Journal of Geophysical Research Earth Surface

The scientist's work also addresses topics such as soil moisture and remote sensing, landslides and related hazards, winter sports injuries and performance, and geophysical methods and applications.

Best Publications

  • Automated extraction of coastline from satellite imagery by integrating Canny edge detection and locally adaptive thresholding methods

    H. Liu;K. C. Jezek

  • Greenland Ice Sheet Surface Properties and Ice Dynamics from ERS-1 SAR Imagery

    Mark Fahnestock;Robert Bindschadler;Ron Kwok;Ken Jezek

  • Radarsat Antarctic Mapping Project digital elevation model version 2

    H. Liu;K. Jezek;B. Li;Z. Zhao

  • Evidence for subglacial water transport in the West Antarctic Ice Sheet through three‐dimensional satellite radar interferometry

    Laurence Gray;Ian Joughin;Ian Joughin;Slawek Tulaczyk;Vandy Blue Spikes

  • Development of an Antarctic digital elevation model by integrating cartographic and remotely sensed data: A geographic information system based approach

    Hongxing Liu;Kenneth C. Jezek;Biyan Li

  • Jakobshavn Glacier, west Greenland: 30 years of spaceborne observations

    Hong Gyoo Sohn;Kenneth C. Jezek;C. J. Van Der Veen

  • Coherent radar ice thickness measurements over the Greenland ice sheet

    S. Gogineni;D. Tammana;D. Braaten;C. Leuschen

  • An improved coherent radar depth sounder

    Sivaprasad Gogineni;T. Chuah;Christopher Thomas Allen;Kenneth C. Jezek

  • Glaciological properties of the Antarctic ice sheet from RADARSAT-1 synthetic aperture radar imagery

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  • Laboratory measurements of radar backscatter from bare and snow-covered saline ice sheets

    S. G. Beaven;G. L. Lockhart;S. P. Gogineni;A. R. Hossetnmostafa

  • A Complete High-Resolution Coastline of Antarctica Extracted from Orthorectified Radarsat SAR Imagery

    Hongxing Liu;Kenneth C. Jezek

  • Velocities and Flux of the Filchner Ice Shelf and its Tributaries Determined from Speckle Tracking Interferometry

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  • The Scientific Legacy of NASA’s Operation IceBridge

    Joseph A. MacGregor;Linette N. Boisvert;Brooke Medley;Alek A. Petty;Alek A. Petty

  • Extent of Low-accumulation 'Wind Glaze' Areas on the East Antarctic Plateau: Implications for Continental Ice Mass Balance

    Theodore A. Scambos;Massimo Frezzotti;T. Haran;J. Bohlander

  • Radar measurements of melt zones on the Greenland Ice Sheet

    Kenneth C. Jezek;Prasad Gogineni;M. Shanableh

  • Wavelet-transform based edge detection approach to derivation of snowmelt onset, end and duration from satellite passive microwave measurements

    Hongxing Liu;Lei Wang;Kenneth C. Jezek

  • On the recent calving of icebergs from the Ross ice shelf

    M. A. Lazzara;K. C. Jezek;T. A. Scambos;D. R. MacAyeal

  • Greenland ice sheet thickness changes measured by laser altimetry

    W. Krabill;R. Thomas;K. Jezek;K. Kuivinen

  • Spatiotemporal Variations of Snowmelt in Antarctica Derived from Satellite Scanning Multichannel Microwave Radiometer and Special Sensor Microwave Imager data (1978–2004)

    Hongxing Liu;Lei Wang;Kenneth C. Jezek

  • Ice-thickness Patterns and the Dynamics of the Ross Ice Shelf, Antarctica *

    Charles R. Bentley;John W. Glough;Kenneth C. Jezek;Sion Shabtaie

  • Ice flow dynamics of the Greenland Ice Sheet from SAR interferometry

    E. Rignot;K. C. Jezek;H. G. Sohn

  • Surface structure and stability of the Larsen C ice shelf, Antarctic Peninsula

    N.F. Glasser;B. Kulessa;A. Luckman;D. Jansen

  • Unusual radar echoes from the greenland ice sheet.

    E. J. Rignot;S. J. Ostro;J. J. van Zyl;K. C. Jezek

  • Analysis of synthetic aperture radar data collected over the southwestern Greenland ice sheet

    K. C. Jezek;M. R. Drinkwater;J. P. Crawford;R. Bindschadler

  • InSAR results from the RADARSAT Antarctic Mapping Mission data: estimation of glacier motion using a simple registration procedure

    A.L. Gray;K.E. Mattar;P.W. Vachon;R. Bindschadler

  • RAMP AMM-1 SAR Image Mosaic of Antarctica

    Kenneth C. Jezek;John C. Curlander;Frank Carsey;Carl Wales

Frequent Co-Authors

Joel T. Johnson
Joel T. Johnson The Ohio State University
Sivaprasad Gogineni
Sivaprasad Gogineni University of Alabama
Giovanni Macelloni
Giovanni Macelloni National Research Council (CNR)
Leung Tsang
Leung Tsang University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
Michael Durand
Michael Durand The Ohio State University
Mark R. Drinkwater
Mark R. Drinkwater European Space Agency
Hongxing Liu
Hongxing Liu University of Alabama
Anthony Freeman
Anthony Freeman Jet Propulsion Lab
Ernesto Rodriguez
Ernesto Rodriguez Jet Propulsion Lab
Eric Rignot
Eric Rignot University of California, Irvine

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