Glacier lake investigation and inventory in the Chinese himalayas based on the remote sensing data

Dili Xuebao/Acta Geographica Sinica

Volumn 65, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 29-36

  Wang, Xin ^a,b   Liu, Shiyin ^b   Yao, Xiaojun ^b   Guo, Wanqin ^b   Yu, Pengchun ^b   Xu, Junli ^b  

^a HUNAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^b Chinese Academy of Sciences   (China)

Author keywords

Glacier lake inventory; Glacier lake investigation; Glacier lake variations; Remote sensing; The himalayas of china

Indexed keywords

ASTER; DIGITAL ELEVATION MODEL; GLACIAL LAKE; GLACIER RETREAT; GLOBAL WARMING; INVENTORY; LANDSAT THEMATIC MAPPER; MORAINE; REMOTE SENSING; SATELLITE DATA; SATELLITE IMAGERY; TOPOGRAPHIC MAPPING;

CHINA; HIMALAYAS;

EID: 77953952464     PISSN: 03755444     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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