Evaluating the potential of an airborne laser-scanning system for measuring volume changes of glaciers by

Geografiska Annaler, Series A: Physical Geography

Volumn 81, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 555-561

  Favey, Etienne ^a   Geiger, Alain ^a   Hilmar Gudmundsson, G ^a,b   Wehr, Aloysius ^a,b  

^a ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF STUTTGART   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AIRBORNE SENSING; GLACIER DYNAMICS; MASS BALANCE;

SWITZERLAND;

EID: 0033502259     PISSN: 04353676     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.0435-3676.1999.00083.x     Document Type: Article

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