Remote sensing and GIS technology in the Global Land Ice Measurements from Space (GLIMS) Project

Computers and Geosciences

Volumn 33, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 104-125

  Raup, Bruce ^a   Kääb, Andreas ^b   Kargel, Jeffrey S ^c   Bishop, Michael P ^d   Hamilton, Gordon ^e   Lee, Ella ^f   Paul, Frank ^b   Rau, Frank ^g   Soltesz, Deborah ^f   Khalsa, Siri Jodha Singh ^a   Beedle, Matthew ^a   Helm, Christopher ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA AT OMAHA   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF MAINE   (United States)

^f U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

^g UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Database; Glaciers; Open source GIS; Remote sensing

Indexed keywords

DISTRIBUTED DATABASE SYSTEMS; GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEMS; INTERACTIVE COMPUTER SYSTEMS; MAPPING; REMOTE SENSING;

AUTOMATED ANALYSIS; GLOBAL LAND ICE MEASUREMENT FROM SPACE; INTERACTIVE TOOL;

GLACIAL GEOLOGY;

DISTRIBUTED DATABASE SYSTEMS; GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEMS; GLACIAL GEOLOGY; INTERACTIVE COMPUTER SYSTEMS; MAPPING; REMOTE SENSING;

DATA PROCESSING; DATABASE; GIS; GLACIER; MAPPING; REMOTE SENSING; SATELLITE IMAGERY; SOFTWARE; VISUALIZATION;

ARIZONA; BOULDER; COLORADO; FLAGSTAFF; NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES;

EID: 33750496451     PISSN: 00983004     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cageo.2006.05.015     Document Type: Article

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