Measurements of glacier variation in the Tibetan Plateau using Landsat data

Remote Sensing of Environment

Volumn 63, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 258-264

  Li, Zhen ^a   Sun, Wenxin ^a   Zeng, Qunzhu ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; COMPUTATIONAL METHODS; GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEMS; GLACIERS; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGING SYSTEMS; MAPS; SATELLITES; VECTORS;

GLACIER VARIATIONS; TOPOGRAPHIC MAPS;

REMOTE SENSING;

GIS; GLACIER; SATELLITE IMAGERY;

CHINA;

EID: 0032010634     PISSN: 00344257     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0034-4257(97)00140-5     Document Type: Article

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