Efficient automated glacier surface velocity measurement from repeat images using multi-image/multichip and null exclusion feature tracking

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 49, Issue 8, 2011, Pages 2838-2846

  Ahn, Yushin ^a   Howat, Ian M ^b  

^a OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Feature tracking; ice velocity; satellite images

Indexed keywords

AUTOMATED PROCESSING; CORRELATION MATCHING; DATA EDITING; EFFICIENT METHOD; ENHANCED THEMATIC MAPPERS; FEATURE-TRACKING; GLACIER SURFACE VELOCITY; ICE MOTION; ICE SHEET; ICE VELOCITY; IMAGE PAIRS; LANDSAT 7; LARGE DATASETS; MASS BALANCE; SATELLITE IMAGES; SEA LEVEL RISE; SINGLE-CHIP;

ALGORITHMS; DATA HANDLING; FEATURE EXTRACTION; GLACIERS; ICE; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; SEA LEVEL; VELOCITY MEASUREMENT;

IMAGE MATCHING;

ALGORITHM; DATA ASSIMILATION; GLACIER FLOW; GLACIER MASS BALANCE; ICE SHEET; IMAGE PROCESSING; SATELLITE DATA; SATELLITE IMAGERY; SEA LEVEL CHANGE;

EID: 79960903318     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TGRS.2011.2114891     Document Type: Article

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