Monitoring Temperate Glacier Displacement by Multi-Temporal TerraSAR-X Images and Continuous GPS Measurements

IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and Remote Sensing

Volumn 4, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 372-386

  Fallourd, Renaud ^a   Trouvé, Emmanuel ^a   Roşu, Diana ^a   Vernier, Flavien ^a   Bolon, Philippe ^a   Harant, Olivier ^b   Gay, Michel ^b   Bombrun, Lionel ^b   Vasile, Gabriel ^b   Nicolas, Jean Marie ^c   Tupin, Florence ^c   Walpersdorf, Andrea ^d   Cotte, Nathalie ^d   Mugnier, Jean Louis ^d   Serafini, Jonathan ^e   Moreau, Luc ^f  

^a Université de Savoie   (France)

^b GIPSA LAB   (France)

^c INSTITUT TELECOM   (France)

^d UNIVERSITÉ GRENOBLE ALPES   (France)

^e UNIVERSITÉ DE LA POLYNÉSIE FRANÇAISE   (French Polynesia)

^f UNIVERSITÉ DE SAVOIE   (France)

Author keywords

Corner reflector (CR); high resolution (HR); motion estimation; offset tracking; synthetic aperture radar (SAR); temperate glacier

Indexed keywords

ALPINE GLACIER; CORNER REFLECTOR (CR); DISPLACEMENT FIELD; GLACIER-MOTION ESTIMATION; HIGH RESOLUTION; IN-SITU MEASUREMENT; INTENSITY INFORMATION; MULTI-POLARIZATION; MULTI-TEMPORAL; MULTI-TEMPORAL IMAGE; OFFSET TRACKING; PERFORMANCE ASSESSMENT; PHASE INFORMATION; RADARSAT-2; SAR DATA; SAR IMAGES; SAR REMOTE SENSING; SPACE-BORNE SAR SENSORS; SURFACE DISPLACEMENT; SURFACE EVOLUTION; TEMPERATE GLACIER; TERRASAR-X; TEST SITE; TRACKING METHOD; X BANDS;

IMAGING SYSTEMS; MONITORING; MOTION ESTIMATION; RADAR TRACKING; REMOTE SENSING; SATELLITES; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR; TIME SERIES; TRACKING RADAR;

GLACIERS;

CONFERENCE PROCEEDING; DISPLACEMENT; GLACIER DYNAMICS; GPS; IMAGE RESOLUTION; SENSOR; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR;

EID: 80052342027     PISSN: 19391404     EISSN: 21511535     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JSTARS.2010.2096200     Document Type: Article

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