A new DEM of the Austfonna ice cap by combining differential SAR interferometry with icesat laser altimetry

Polar Research

Volumn 31, Issue SUPPL., 2012, Pages

  Moholdt, Geir ^a   Kääb, Andreas ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OSLO   (Norway)

Author keywords

Austfonna; DEM; Glacier; Ice cap; ICESat; SAR

Indexed keywords

CRYOSAT-2; DATA QUALITY; DIGITAL ELEVATION MODEL; ERROR ANALYSIS; GLACIER; GLACIOLOGY; GNSS; ICE CAP; ICESAT; RADAR INTERFEROMETRY; SATELLITE ALTIMETRY; SATELLITE DATA; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR;

ARCTIC; NORWAY; SVALBARD; SVALBARD AND JAN MAYEN;

EID: 84859713333     PISSN: 08000395     EISSN: 17518369     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3402/polar.v31i0.18460     Document Type: Article

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