Water level changes of two Tibetan lakes Nam Co and Selin Co from ICESat altimetry data

2010 2nd IITA International Conference on Geoscience and Remote Sensing, IITA-GRS 2010

Volumn 1, Issue , 2010, Pages 463-466

  Zhang, Guoqing ^a,b,c   Xie, Hongjie ^b   Zhu, Minqiang ^c  

^a CHINA UNIVERSITY OF GEOSCIENCES   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT SAN ANTONIO   (United States)

^c EAST CHINA UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

ICESat; Lake level; Nam Co and Selin Co; Satellite laser altimetry; Tibetan Plateau

Indexed keywords

CHANGE PATTERNS; COMPLEMENTARY TOOLS; CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; EARTH SURFACE; ELEVATION DATA; GEOSCIENCE LASER ALTIMETER SYSTEMS; HIGH ALTITUDE; HYDROLOGIC MONITORING; ICESAT; LAKE AREAS; LAKE LEVELS; LAND ELEVATION SATELLITES; NAM CO AND SELIN CO; SATELLITE ALTIMETRY; THIN ATMOSPHERE; TIBETAN PLATEAU; TIBETANS; TOPEX/POSEIDON; WATER LEVEL CHANGES; WEATHER CONDITIONS;

ANEROID ALTIMETERS; GEOLOGY; LAKES; NASA; RADIO ALTIMETERS; REMOTE SENSING; SATELLITE GROUND STATIONS; WATER LEVELS;

GEODETIC SATELLITES;

EID: 78349296116     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/IITA-GRS.2010.5602644     Document Type: Conference Paper

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