Antarctic grounding line mapping from differential satellite radar interferometry

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 38, Issue 10, 2011, Pages

  Rignot, E ^a,b   Mouginot, J ^a   Scheuchl, B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DIFFERENTIATION (CALCULUS); GEODETIC SATELLITES; GLACIERS; INTERFEROMETRY; MAPPING; RADAR; REMOTE SENSING; SATELLITE GROUND STATIONS; SATELLITE IMAGERY;

ABRUPT CHANGE; ANTARCTICA; D-INSAR; DETECTION NOISE; EARTH REMOTE SENSING; FLOATING ICE; GROUNDING LINE; HIGH-RESOLUTION MAPPING; ICE SHEET; ICE SHEET DYNAMICS; ICE STREAMS; ICE-OCEAN INTERACTIONS; MASS BUDGET; NUMERICAL MODELING; OBSERVING SYSTEMS; POSITIONING ERROR; RADAR INTERFEROMETRY; RADARSAT 1; SATELLITE RADAR INTERFEROMETRY; SURFACE SLOPE; TRANSITION BOUNDARIES; VERTICAL MOTIONS; VISIBLE IMAGERY;

ICE;

GLACIOLOGY; ICE SHEET; MAGNITUDE; MARINE ENVIRONMENT; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; MEASUREMENT METHOD; NUMERICAL MODEL; RADAR INTERFEROMETRY; REMOTE SENSING; RESOLUTION; SATELLITE DATA; SATELLITE IMAGERY; SLOPE; TIDAL CYCLE;

ANTARCTICA;

EID: 79957954722     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2011GL047109     Document Type: Article

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