Assessment of glacier volume change using ASTER-based surface matching of historical photography

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 47, Issue 7, 2009, Pages 1971-1979

  Miller, Pauline E ^a   Kunz, Matthias ^a   Mills, Jon P ^a   King, Matt A ^a   Murray, Tavi ^b   James, Timothy D ^b   Marsh, Stuart H ^c  

^a NEWCASTLE UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b SWANSEA UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^c BRITISH GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Geodesy; Remote sensing; Terrain mapping

Indexed keywords

ADVANCED SPACEBORNE THERMAL EMISSION AND REFLECTION RADIOMETER; ARCHIVAL DATA; ASTER DATA; CHANGE ANALYSIS; CONTROL POINT; CONTROL SURFACES; COST-EFFECTIVE SOLUTIONS; DIGITAL ELEVATION MODEL; GLACIER VOLUME CHANGE; GLOBAL COVERAGE; GROUND CONTROL; HIGH QUALITY; HISTORICAL ARCHIVE; LIDAR DATA; SURFACE MATCHING; SURFACE MATCHING ALGORITHMS; SVALBARD; TERRAIN MAPPING; TRUTH DATA;

GEODESY; GLACIERS; OPTICAL RADAR; PHOTOGRAMMETRY; QUALITY CONTROL; REMOTE SENSING; ROCK MECHANICS; SURVEYING;

CLIMATE CHANGE;

ASSESSMENT METHOD; ASTER; CLIMATE CHANGE; DIGITAL ELEVATION MODEL; GLACIER; PHOTOGRAPHY;

EID: 67651165047     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TGRS.2009.2012702     Document Type: Article

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