Comparison of SAR and optical data in deriving glacier velocity with feature tracking

International Journal of Remote Sensing

Volumn 32, Issue 10, 2011, Pages 2681-2698

  Huang, Lei ^a   Li, Zhen ^b  

^a CENTER FOR EARTH OBSERVATION AND DIGITAL EARTH   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FLOW FIELDS; RADAR IMAGING; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR; VELOCITY;

ADVANCED LAND OBSERVING SATELLITES; CROSS-CORRELATION ALGORITHM; FEATURE-TRACKING; MAXIMAL CORRELATION; OPTICAL DATA; SATELLITE IMAGES; VELOCITY GRADIENTS; VELOCITY VARIATIONS;

SPACE-BASED RADAR;

ALGORITHM; ALOS; CORRELATION; GLACIER DYNAMICS; OPTICAL METHOD; SATELLITE IMAGERY; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR; TRACKING;

EID: 79957626726     PISSN: 01431161     EISSN: 13665901     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/01431161003720395     Document Type: Article

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