Find the firn line! the suitability of ERS-1 and ERS-2 SAR data for the analysis of glacier facies on icelandic icecaps

International Journal of Remote Sensing

Volumn 20, Issue 15-16, 1999, Pages 3217-3230

  Brown, I A ^a,b   Kirkbride, M P ^a   Vaughan, R A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DUNDEE   (United Kingdom)

^b Climate Impacts Research Centre   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GEOGRAPHICAL REGIONS; GLACIERS; INFORMATION DISSEMINATION; RADAR IMAGING; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR;

FIRN LINE ALTITUDE; ICELANDIC ICECAPS; RAPID INFORMATION DISSEMINATION SYSTEM;

REMOTE SENSING;

ERS-1; ERS-2; FACIES ANALYSIS; FIRN; ICE CAP; MONITORING;

ICELAND;

EID: 0033569108     PISSN: 01431161     EISSN: 13665901     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/014311699211714     Document Type: Article

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