Improved elevation-change measurement of the southern Greenland ice sheet from satellite radar altimetry

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 38, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 1367-1378

  Davis, Curt H ^a  

^a University of Missouri   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ERROR ANALYSIS; GLOBAL WARMING; RADAR MEASUREMENT; RADIOMETERS; SATELLITE OBSERVATORIES; SEA ICE; SEA LEVEL;

ARCTIC REGIONS; ELEVATION CHANGE MEASUREMENT; SATELLITE RADAR ALTIMETRY;

ANEROID ALTIMETERS;

EID: 0033714611     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/36.843031     Document Type: Article

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