Co-registration and bias corrections of satellite elevation data sets for quantifying glacier thickness change

Cryosphere

Volumn 5, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 271-290

  Nuth, C ^a   Kaab ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OSLO   (Norway)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ASTER; DATA ACQUISITION; DATA SET; DIGITAL ELEVATION MODEL; ERROR CORRECTION; GLACIER MASS BALANCE; ICESAT; SHUTTLE RADAR TOPOGRAPHY MISSION; SPOT; TERRAIN;

ARCTIC; NEW ZEALAND; SVALBARD; SVALBARD AND JAN MAYEN;

EID: 79953246166     PISSN: 19940416     EISSN: 19940424     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/tc-5-271-2011     Document Type: Article

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