SPOT5-HRS digital elevation models and the monitoring of glacier elevation changes in North-West Canada and South-East Alaska

Remote Sensing of Environment

Volumn 112, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 2443-2454

  Berthier, Etienne ^a   Toutin, Thierry ^b  

^a LEGOS   (France)

^b CANADA CENTRE FOR REMOTE SENSING   (Canada)

Author keywords

Alaska; British Columbia; Climate change; DEM; Glacier; Glacier surge; Ice cap; ICESAT; International Polar Year; SPOT5; SRTM; Topography

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; COMPUTER SOFTWARE; GLACIERS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; SPACE SHUTTLES; SURVEYING; TOPOGRAPHY;

GLACIER SURGE; ICE CAP; INTERNATIONAL POLAR YEAR; SHUTTLE RADAR TOPOGRAPHIC MISSION (SRTM);

PHOTOMAPPING;

ACCURACY ASSESSMENT; CLIMATE CHANGE; DIGITAL ELEVATION MODEL; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE; GLACIER SURGE; ICE CAP; SATELLITE DATA; SHUTTLE RADAR TOPOGRAPHY MISSION; SOFTWARE; SPOT; THINNING; TOPOGRAPHY;

ALASKA; BRITISH COLUMBIA; CANADA; NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES;

EID: 41249099625     PISSN: 00344257     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.rse.2007.11.004     Document Type: Article

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