Monitoring glacier change based on remote sensing in the Mt. qomolangma national nature preserve, 1976-2006

Dili Xuebao/Acta Geographica Sinica

Volumn 65, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 13-28

  Nie, Yong ^a,b   Zhang, Yili ^a   Liu, Linshan ^a   Zhang, Jiping ^a,b  

^a INSTITUTE OF GEOGRAPHIC SCIENCES AND NATURAL RESOURCES RESEARCH   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

Author keywords

Glacier retreat; Himalayas; Mt. Everest; Mt. Qomolangma national nature preserve; Remote sensing

Indexed keywords

EXPERT SYSTEM; FIELD SURVEY; GIS; GLACIAL LAKE; GLACIER RETREAT; IMAGE ANALYSIS; LANDSAT MULTISPECTRAL SCANNER; LANDSAT THEMATIC MAPPER; MONITORING; MOUNTAIN REGION; NATURE RESERVE; PRECIPITATION INTENSITY; REMOTE SENSING; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; TEMPERATURE EFFECT; TEMPORAL DISTRIBUTION;

CHINA; HIMALAYAS; QOMOLANGMA NATIONAL NATURE PRESERVE; XIZANG;

EID: 77953931950     PISSN: 03755444     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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