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<journal-id journal-id-type="publisher">EGUsphere</journal-id>
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<journal-title>EGUsphere</journal-title>
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<publisher><publisher-name>Copernicus Publications</publisher-name>
<publisher-loc>Göttingen, Germany</publisher-loc>
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<article-id pub-id-type="doi">10.5194/egusphere-2026-5765</article-id>
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<article-title>Multi-sensor deep-learning mapping of surface and basal fractures across Antarctic ice shelves during the last four decades</article-title>
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<contrib-group><contrib contrib-type="author" xlink:type="simple"><name name-style="western"><surname>Shahateet</surname>
<given-names>Kaian</given-names>
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<sup>1</sup>
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<sup>2</sup>
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<sup>6</sup>
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<contrib contrib-type="author" xlink:type="simple"><name name-style="western"><surname>Prieur</surname>
<given-names>Colin</given-names>
<ext-link>https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2875-4627</ext-link>
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<contrib contrib-type="author" xlink:type="simple"><name name-style="western"><surname>Millan</surname>
<given-names>Romain</given-names>
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<sup>1</sup>
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<contrib contrib-type="author" xlink:type="simple"><name name-style="western"><surname>Gimenes</surname>
<given-names>Lucille</given-names>
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<sup>1</sup>
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<contrib contrib-type="author" xlink:type="simple"><name name-style="western"><surname>Haastrup-Vang</surname>
<given-names>Andrea Sofie</given-names>
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<sup>3</sup>
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<contrib contrib-type="author" xlink:type="simple"><name name-style="western"><surname>Roas</surname>
<given-names>Jaime</given-names>
<ext-link>https://orcid.org/0009-0003-0219-1488</ext-link>
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<sup>3</sup>
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<contrib contrib-type="author" xlink:type="simple"><name name-style="western"><surname>Izeboud</surname>
<given-names>Maaike</given-names>
<ext-link>https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8915-7252</ext-link>
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<sup>5</sup>
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<contrib contrib-type="author" xlink:type="simple"><name name-style="western"><surname>Charrassin</surname>
<given-names>Raphaelle</given-names>
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<contrib contrib-type="author" xlink:type="simple"><name name-style="western"><surname>Giraldi</surname>
<given-names>Emil</given-names>
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<contrib contrib-type="author" xlink:type="simple"><name name-style="western"><surname>Santiard</surname>
<given-names>Romain</given-names>
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<sup>1</sup>
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<label>1</label>
<addr-line>Université Grenoble Alpes, CNRS, INRAE, IRD, Grenoble INP, IGE, Grenoble, France</addr-line>
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<label>2</label>
<addr-line>Department of Water Resources and Environment, Aeronautics Institute of Technology, São José dos Campos, Brazil</addr-line>
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<aff id="aff3">
<label>3</label>
<addr-line>Department of Geosciences and Natural Resource Management, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen K, Denmark</addr-line>
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<aff id="aff4">
<label>4</label>
<addr-line>Department Earth System Science, University of California Irvine, Irvine, 92697 CA, USA</addr-line>
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<aff id="aff5">
<label>5</label>
<addr-line>Department of Water and Climate, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Brussels 1050, Belgium</addr-line>
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<aff id="aff6">
<label>6</label>
<addr-line>These authors contributed equally to this work.</addr-line>
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<day>01</day>
<month>10</month>
<year>2026</year>
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<volume>2026</volume>
<fpage>1</fpage>
<lpage>32</lpage>
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<copyright-statement>Copyright: &#x000a9; 2026 Kaian Shahateet et al.</copyright-statement>
<copyright-year>2026</copyright-year>
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<p>Ice shelves buttress the discharge of Antarctica&amp;rsquo;s outlet glaciers, mitigating their contribution to sea-level rise. Yet progressive damage through fracturing remains largely absent from projections, partly because long-term observations of ice-shelf fractures remain limited despite their critical influence on ice-shelf stability. Here, we introduce BASIS (BAsal and Surface Ice-shelf fracture extraction System), a deep-learning model for mapping surface crevasses and basal-fracture across Antarctic ice shelves. Unlike existing approaches based on classical edge detectors or models trained on edge-based datasets, BASIS is designed to delineate the full extent of fracture features, including diffuse basal-fracture signatures and highly damaged, chaotic regions. We train, validate, and test BASIS, based on DeepLabv3, using a unique manually labeled fracture dataset spanning 14 Antarctic ice shelves and the full Landsat observation era. Model performance approaches inter-annotator agreement, while maintaining the distinction between basal and surface fractures. We quantify biases associated with sensor transitions and observation availability and develop a framework for producing consistent multi-sensor fracture records. Annual mosaics reveal the spatiotemporal evolution of ice-shelf damage from the 1980s onward and show that basal-fracture signatures dominate the mapped damage patterns across the ice shelves examined here. At Pine Island Glacier Ice Shelf, BASIS resolves successive stages of shear-margin damage together with a progressive increase in basal-fracture. At Mertz and Borchgrevink ice shelves, it reveals extensive networks of basal-fracture signatures that are poorly represented in existing continent-wide products based on Sentinel-1 SAR imagery. Finally, BASIS demonstrates promising cross-sensor transferability to Sentinel-2 and ASTER optical imagery and, despite having been trained exclusively on Landsat data, also recovers coherent fracture patterns from SAR imagery. These results provide a foundation for large-scale, multi-sensor monitoring of Antarctic ice-shelf damage across unprecedented spatial and temporal scales.</p>
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<funding-source>European Research Council</funding-source>
<award-id>101164392</award-id>
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