Assessing the relevance of digital elevation models to evaluate glacier mass balance: Application to Austre Lovénbreen (Spitsbergen, 79°N)

Polar Record

Volumn 48, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 2-10

  Friedt, J M ^a   Tolle, F ^a   Bernard, E ^a   Griselin, M ^a   Laffly, D ^b   Marlin, C ^c  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE FRANCHE COMTÉ   (France)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE TOULOUSE   (France)

^c UNIVERSITÉ PARIS SACLAY   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY ASSESSMENT; ALTITUDE; CONFERENCE PROCEEDING; DATA ACQUISITION; DATA SET; DIGITAL ELEVATION MODEL; GLACIER DYNAMICS; GLACIER MASS BALANCE; GPS; ICE THICKNESS; IMAGE RESOLUTION; LIDAR; SATELLITE DATA; TOPOGRAPHIC MAPPING;

ARCTIC; SPITSBERGEN; SVALBARD; SVALBARD AND JAN MAYEN;

EID: 82555173088     PISSN: 00322474     EISSN: 14753057     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0032247411000465     Document Type: Conference Paper

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