Antarctic ice sheet and radar altimetry: A Review

Remote Sensing

Volumn 1, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 1212-1239

  Rémy, Frédérique ^a   Parouty, Soazig ^a  

^a LEGOS   (France)

Author keywords

Antarctica; Ice dynamics; Mass balance; Radar altimetry; Snow properties

Indexed keywords

ANTARCTICA; ICE DYNAMICS; MASS BALANCE; RADAR ALTIMETRY; SNOW PROPERTIES;

GEODETIC SATELLITES; GLACIAL GEOLOGY; GLACIERS; LAUNCHING; RADAR; SNOW; SURFACE ROUGHNESS;

ICE;

EID: 78650683909     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20724292     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/rs1041212     Document Type: Review

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