Perito Moreno Glacier (Argentina) flow estimation by COSMO SkyMed sequence of high-resolution SAR-X imagery

Remote Sensing of Environment

Volumn 114, Issue 9, 2010, Pages 2088-2096

  Ciappa, Achille ^a   Pietranera, Luca ^a   Battazza, Fabrizio ^b  

^a Earth Observation   (Italy)

^b ITALIAN SPACE AGENCY   (Italy)

Author keywords

COSMO SkyMed; Cross correlation; Glacier motion; Perito Moreno; SAR

Indexed keywords

ARGENTINA; COREGISTRATION; COSMO SKYMED; CROSS CORRELATION METHODS; CROSS CORRELATIONS; DATA SETS; DIFFERENT SPEED; FLOW ESTIMATION; HIGH SPATIAL RESOLUTION; HIGH SPATIAL RESOLUTION IMAGERY; HIGH-RESOLUTION SAR; ICE STREAMS; ICE VELOCITY; IMAGE PAIRS; MORENO GLACIER; NATIONAL PARKS; PATAGONIA; SEQUENTIAL IMAGES; TIME INTERVAL; TIME-SCALES;

CORRELATION METHODS; IMAGE RESOLUTION; PARKS;

GLACIERS;

DATA SET; FLOW MEASUREMENT; GLACIER; GLACIER DYNAMICS; ICE STREAM; SATELLITE IMAGERY; SPATIAL RESOLUTION; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR;

ARGENTINA; PERITO MORENO NATIONAL PARK; SANTA CRUZ [ARGENTINA];

EID: 77954816319     PISSN: 00344257     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.rse.2010.04.014     Document Type: Article

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