Using a ground-based SAR interferometer and a terrestrial laser scanner to monitor a snow-covered slope: Results from an experimental data collection in Tyrol (Austria)

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 47, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 382-393

  Luzi, Guido ^a   Noferini, Linhsia ^a   Mecatti, Daniele ^a   Macaluso, Giovanni ^a   Pieraccini, Massimiliano ^a   Atzeni, Carlo ^a   Schaffhauser, Andreas ^b   Fromm, Reinhard ^c   Nagler, Thomas ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORENCE   (Italy)

^b ZAMG Zentralanstalt fuer Meteorologie und Geodynamik   (Austria)

^c FEDERAL RESEARCH AND TRAINING CENTRE FOR FORESTS   (Austria)

^d ENVEO IT GMBH   (Austria)

Author keywords

Ground based microwave interferometry; Snow depth (SD); Terrestrial laser scanner (TLS)

Indexed keywords

DIFFUSERS (OPTICAL); INTERFEROMETERS; KNOWLEDGE BASED SYSTEMS; LASER APPLICATIONS; LASERS; MICROWAVES; MULTISPECTRAL SCANNERS; PLASMAS; PRECIPITATION (METEOROLOGY); SCANNING; SNOW; SNOW MELTING SYSTEMS; STEEL BEAMS AND GIRDERS; SURVEYING INSTRUMENTS; SYNTHETIC APERTURES;

ALPINE AREAS; CONVENTIONAL MEASUREMENTS; DATA RECORDS; DRY SNOWS; EXPERIMENTAL DATUM; GROUND-BASED MICROWAVE INTERFEROMETRY; INTERFEROMETRIC PHASE; INTERFEROMETRIC PHASE SHIFTS; MOUNTAINOUS REGIONS; NEAR INFRA REDS; SAR INTERFEROMETERS; SAR INTERFEROMETRIES; SNOW DEPTH (SD); SNOW LAYERS; TEMPORAL DATUM; TERRESTRIAL LASER SCANNER (TLS); TERRESTRIAL LASER-SCANNING;

INTERFEROMETRY;

ALPINE ENVIRONMENT; GROUND-BASED MEASUREMENT; INTERFEROMETER; LASER; SNOW; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR;

AUSTRIA; CENTRAL EUROPE; EURASIA; EUROPE; TYROL;

EID: 59849120825     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TGRS.2008.2009994     Document Type: Conference Paper

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