InSAR measurements of surface deformation over permafrost on the North Slope of Alaska

Journal of Geophysical Research: Earth Surface

Volumn 115, Issue 3, 2010, Pages

  Liu, Lin ^a   Zhang, Tingjun ^a   Wahr, John ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACTIVE LAYER; AIR TEMPERATURE; DEFORMATION; DISPLACEMENT; FLOODPLAIN; INTERFEROMETRY; PERMAFROST; SUBSIDENCE; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR; THAWING; TUNDRA; CALIBRATION; DEFORMATION MECHANISM; GROUND-BASED MEASUREMENT; HYPOTHESIS TESTING; IN SITU MEASUREMENT; MODEL VALIDATION; REMOTE SENSING; SEASONAL VARIATION;

ALASKA; NORTH SLOPE; UNITED STATES;

EID: 77955869443     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21699011     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2009JF001547     Document Type: Article

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