SHANGHAI:Under this ice sheet there are many different underground lakes. According to Tang Xuyuan, head of the research team at the Polar Research Institute of China (PRIC), ice streams are formed when melting ice flows from depressions in the bed beneath the glacier.
Scientists have developed a new method using a Variational Autoencoder (VAE) to analyze the characteristics of ice floor reflection waves shown in ice radar data. Using this approach, the research team conducted a comprehensive review of ice radar images in the AGAP-S area of the Gamburtsev subterranean mountains in East Antarctica. The results revealed the presence of 46 underground lakes characterized by smaller geometric contours than those identified by conventional methods.
Scientists believe that this new method can improve the efficiency and accuracy of exploring the lake inside the earth, and promises to expand the discovery and labeling of lower regions of Antarctica.
The research was conducted jointly by a team from PRIC, China University of Geosciences (Wuhan) and Southern University of Science and Technology.
According to current statistics, scientists around the world have found a total of 675 underground lakes under the Antarctic ice sheet, three of which have been successfully drilled and sampled.
