The use of remote-sensing data for mass-balance studies at Mýrdalsjökull ice cap, Iceland

Journal of Glaciology

Volumn 52, Issue 179, 2006, Pages 565-573

  Jaenicke, Julia ^a   Mayer, Christoph ^b   Scharrer, Kilian ^a   Münzer, Ulrich ^a   Gudmundsson, Ágúst ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^b BAVARIAN ACADEMY OF SCIENCES AND HUMANITIES   (Germany)

^c Fjarkönnun ehf ^*  (Iceland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GLACIER; ICE CAP; IMAGE ANALYSIS; MASS BALANCE; RADAR IMAGERY; REMOTE SENSING; SATELLITE IMAGERY; SENSOR; SNOWLINE; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR;

ARCTIC; ICELAND;

EID: 33847040328     PISSN: 00221430     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3189/172756506781828340     Document Type: Article

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