The accuracy of satellite radar altimeter data over the Greenland ice sheet determined from airborne laser data

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 25, Issue 16, 1998, Pages 3177-3180

  Bamber, J L ^a   Ekholm, S ^b   Krabill, W ^c,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

^b Kort & Matrikelstyrelsen   (Denmark)

^c NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

^d NASA HEADQUARTERS   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ERROR CORRECTION; ICE; LASER APPLICATIONS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; RADAR MEASUREMENT; SATELLITES; ANEROID ALTIMETERS; GLACIAL GEOLOGY; GLACIERS; METEOROLOGICAL INSTRUMENTS; RADAR; RADAR EQUIPMENT; RADIO ALTIMETERS; SPACE-BASED RADAR; SURFACE ROUGHNESS;

LASER ALTIMETERS; RADAR ALTIMETERS; ABSOLUTE ACCURACY; AIRBORNE LASER DATA; AIRBORNE LASERS; DIGITAL ELEVATION MODEL; GREENLAND ICE SHEET; HALF POWER BEAM WIDTHS; SATELLITE RADAR; SATELLITE RADAR ALTIMETRY;

RADIO ALTIMETERS; GEODETIC SATELLITES;

AIRBORNE SENSING; ICE SHEET; SATELLITE ALTIMETRY;

GREENLAND;

EID: 0032529788     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/98GL01594     Document Type: Article

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