A decadal investigation of supraglacial lakes in West Greenland using a fully automatic detection and tracking algorithm

Remote Sensing of Environment

Volumn 123, Issue , 2012, Pages 127-138

  Liang, Yu Li ^a   Colgan, William ^b   Lv, Qin ^a   Steffen, Konrad ^b   Abdalati, Waleed ^b,c   Stroeve, Julienne ^b   Gallaher, David ^b   Bayou, Nicolas ^b  

^a University of Colorado at Boulder   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^c NASA HEADQUARTERS   (United States)

Author keywords

Change detection; Greenland Ice Sheet; Melt intensity; MODIS; Supraglacial lake; Temporal tracking

Indexed keywords

AUTOMATIC DETECTION; BASAL SLIDING; CHANGE DETECTION; GREENLAND ICE SHEET; ICE SHEET; ICE THICKNESS; INTERANNUAL; LAKE AREAS; LAKE DRAINAGE EVENTS; MELT INTENSITY; MODIS; ROBUST ALGORITHM; SPATIAL EXTENT; SURFACE MELTWATER PRODUCTION; TEMPORAL FREQUENCY; VALIDATION TEST; WEST GREENLAND;

ALGORITHMS; CLIMATE CHANGE; GLACIERS; SATELLITE IMAGERY;

LAKES;

ACCURACY ASSESSMENT; ALGORITHM; DECADAL VARIATION; GLACIAL LAKE; ICE THICKNESS; MELTWATER; MODIS; SATELLITE IMAGERY;

ARCTIC; GREENLAND; GREENLAND ICE SHEET; WEST GREENLAND;

EID: 84859628409     PISSN: 00344257     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.rse.2012.03.020     Document Type: Article

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