Motion patterns of Nabesna Glacier (Alaska) revealed by interferometric SAR techniques

Remote Sensing of Environment

Volumn 112, Issue 9, 2008, Pages 3628-3638

  Li, Shusun ^a   Benson, Carl ^a   Gens, Rudi ^a   Lingle, Craig ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALASKA FAIRBANKS   (United States)

Author keywords

Glacier motion; Interferometry; Synthetic aperture radar

Indexed keywords

DETECTORS; ESTIMATION; FLOW PATTERNS; GEODETIC SATELLITES; IMAGING SYSTEMS; IMAGING TECHNIQUES; INTERFEROMETRY; LANDFORMS; QUENCHING; RADAR; REMOTE SENSING; SPACE OPTICS; SPEED; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR; SYNTHETIC APERTURES; TARGET DRONES; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS; VORTEX FLOW;

DATA POINTS; EUROPEAN REMOTE SENSING (ERS) SATELLITES; FLOW SPEEDS; GLACIER FLOW; INTERFEROMETRIC SAR (INSAR); LOCAL MAXIMUM; MIDDLE SECTION; MOTION PATTERNS; MOUNTAIN GLACIERS; NORTH AMERICA; SPATIAL AND TEMPORAL VARIABILITY; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR (SAR) IMAGES;

GLACIERS;

FLOW VELOCITY; GLACIER DYNAMICS; GLACIER FLOW; INTERFEROMETRY; MOUNTAIN; REMOTE SENSING; SATELLITE IMAGERY; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR;

NORTH AMERICA;

EID: 48349125274     PISSN: 00344257     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.rse.2008.05.015     Document Type: Article

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