Ice-sheet elevations from across-track processing of airborne interferometric radar altimetry

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 36, Issue 22, 2009, Pages

  Hawley, R L ^a,b   Shepherd, A ^c   Cullen, R ^d   Helm, V ^e   Wingham, D J ^f  

^a HB6105 Fairchild Hall ^*  (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^d EUROPEAN SPACE AGENCY   (Netherlands)

^e ALFRED WEGENER INSTITUTE FOR POLAR AND MARINE RESEARCH   (Germany)

^f UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AIRBORNE LASER SCANNERS; ANTARCTICA; COASTAL REGIONS; CRYOSAT; GREENLAND; GROUND-TRACK; ICE-SHEET ELEVATION; INTERFEROMETRIC RADARS; MEASUREMENT DENSITY; PHASE DIFFERENCE; RADAR ALTIMETRY; RECEIVE ANTENNA; STEEP SLOPE; TRACK DIRECTION; TRACK PROCESSING;

COASTAL ZONES; INTERFEROMETRY; LANDING; METEOROLOGICAL INSTRUMENTS; RADAR; RADAR MEASUREMENT; RECEIVING ANTENNAS;

RADAR ANTENNAS;

ANTENNA; COASTAL ZONE; ICE SHEET; INTERFEROMETRY; RADAR ALTIMETRY; SATELLITE DATA; SPATIAL ANALYSIS; TERRAIN;

EID: 72049125832     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2009GL040416     Document Type: Article

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