Glacier Variability in the Wind River Range, Wyoming

Journal of Hydrologic Engineering

Volumn 16, Issue 10, 2011, Pages 798-805

  Thompson, Derrick ^a   Tootle, Glenn ^b   Kerr, Greg ^a   Sivanpillai, Ramesh ^a   Pochop, Larry ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WYOMING   (United States)

^b University of Tennessee Knoxville   (United States)

Author keywords

Climate; Glaciers; Remote sensing

Indexed keywords

AERIAL PHOTOGRAPHS; AREA-CHANGES; CLIMATE; LANDSAT IMAGERY; LINEAR DECREASE; MEASUREMENT SCALE; REMOTELY SENSED IMAGERY; RESEARCH EFFORTS; SPATIAL RESOLUTION; SURFACE AREA; TOTAL SURFACE AREA; WIND RIVER; WYOMING;

AERIAL PHOTOGRAPHY; IMAGE RESOLUTION; PHOTOGRAPHIC EQUIPMENT; REMOTE SENSING;

GLACIERS;

ACCURACY ASSESSMENT; AERIAL PHOTOGRAPHY; CLIMATE VARIATION; GLACIER; IMAGE RESOLUTION; LANDSAT; REMOTE SENSING; SATELLITE IMAGERY; SPATIAL RESOLUTION; SURFACE AREA;

ROCKY MOUNTAINS; UNITED STATES; WIND RIVER RANGE; WYOMING;

EID: 80155127407     PISSN: 10840699     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1061/(ASCE)HE.1943-5584.0000384     Document Type: Article

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