A new methodology for detecting ice sheet surface elevation changes from laser altimetry data

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 50, Issue 9, 2012, Pages 3302-3316

  Schenk, Tony ^a   Csathó, Beáta ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY AT BUFFALO   (United States)

Author keywords

Change detection; Ice Cloud and land Elevation Satellite (ICESat); ice dynamics; ice sheets; laser altimetry; multisensor

Indexed keywords

CHANGE DETECTION; ICE DYNAMICS; ICE SHEET; LAND ELEVATION SATELLITES; LASER ALTIMETRY; MULTI SENSOR;

CLOUDS; COASTAL ZONES; GLACIERS; NASA; POLYNOMIAL APPROXIMATION; SATELLITE GROUND STATIONS; SEA LEVEL; SIGNAL DETECTION; TIME SERIES;

ANEROID ALTIMETERS;

ACCURACY ASSESSMENT; AIRBORNE THEMATIC MAPPER; ALTIMETRY; COASTAL ZONE; DATA SET; DETECTION METHOD; ELEVATION; GLOBAL OCEAN; ICE COVER; ICE SHEET; ICE THICKNESS; ICESAT; LASER; RECONSTRUCTION; SAMPLING; SEA ICE; SEA LEVEL; SEASONALITY; SPATIAL VARIATION; TIME SERIES; VOLUME CHANGE;

ARCTIC; GREENLAND;

EID: 84865680126     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TGRS.2011.2182357     Document Type: Article

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