Combining airborne photographs and spaceborne SAR data to monitor temperate glaciers: Potentials and limits

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 45, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 905-922

  Trouvé, Emmanuel ^a,b,c   Vasile, Gabriel ^a,b,c   Gay, Michel ^c   Bombrun, Lionel ^a,c   Grussenmeyer, Pierre ^d   Landes, Tania ^d   Nicolas, Jean Marie ^e   Bolon, Philippe ^a,b   Petillot, Ivan ^b   Julea, Andreea ^b,f   Valet, Lionel ^b   Chanussot, Jocelyn ^a,c   Koehl, Mathieu ^d  

^a IEEE   (France)

^b Université de Savoie   (France)

^c CNRS   (France)

^d INSA DE STRASBOURG   (France)

^e TELECOM PARISTECH   (France)

^f INSTITUTE OF SPACE SCIENCES   (Romania)

Author keywords

Airborne photogrammetry; Digital terrain model (DTM); Synthetic aperture radar (InSAR) interferometry; Temperate glacier; Velocity field

Indexed keywords

AIRBORNE PHOTOGRAMMETRY; DIGITAL TERRAIN MODEL (DTM); MONT-BLANC AREA; TEMPERATE GLACIERS; VELOCITY FIELDS;

CLIMATE CHANGE; ICE; PHOTOGRAMMETRY; REMOTE SENSING; SATELLITE IMAGERY; SPACE APPLICATIONS; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR; SYNTHETIC APERTURES;

GLACIERS;

EID: 33947728660     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TGRS.2006.890554     Document Type: Article

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