Compilation of a glacier inventory for the western Himalayas from satellite data: Methods, challenges, and results

Remote Sensing of Environment

Volumn 124, Issue , 2012, Pages 832-843

  Frey, Holger ^a   Paul, Frank ^a   Strozzi, Tazio ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b GAMMA REMOTE SENSING   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

ASTER GDEM; Coherence images; Debris covered glaciers; Glacier characteristics; Glacier inventory; Glacier mapping; Himalaya; SRTM

Indexed keywords

ASTER GDEM; COHERENCE IMAGES; DEBRIS-COVERED GLACIER; GLACIER INVENTORY; HIMALAYAS; SRTM;

DEBRIS; SURVEYING; TRACKING RADAR; WATER RESOURCES;

MAPPING;

ASTER; CLIMATE CHANGE; DATABASE; DEBRIS FLOW; DIGITAL ELEVATION MODEL; LANDSAT THEMATIC MAPPER; OROGRAPHY; PERMAFROST; SATELLITE DATA; SHUTTLE RADAR TOPOGRAPHY MISSION; WATER RESOURCE;

HIMALAYAS;

EID: 84864102237     PISSN: 00344257     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.rse.2012.06.020     Document Type: Article

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