Analyzing Yengisogat Glacier surface velocities with ALOS PALSAR data feature tracking, Karakoram, China

Environmental Earth Sciences

Volumn 67, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 1033-1043

  Jiang, Zong li ^a,b   Liu, Shi yin ^b   Peters, Juliane ^c   Lin, Jian ^a   Long, Si chun ^a   Han, Yong shun ^a   Wang, Xin ^a  

^a HUNAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^b Chinese Academy of Sciences   (China)

^c DRESDEN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

GAMMA software; Glacier surface velocity; Karakoram Mountains; SAR feature tracking

Indexed keywords

ADVANCED LAND OBSERVING SATELLITES; ANNUAL AVERAGE; CENTERLINES; DATA FEATURE; DATA SETS; EQUILIBRIUM LINE ALTITUDES; FEATURE-TRACKING; GLACIER SURFACE VELOCITY; KARAKORAM MOUNTAINS; LONG-TERM DEVELOPMENT; LOW-COHERENCE; OPTICAL IMAGERY; PHASED ARRAY TYPE L-BAND SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADARS; SAR INTERFEROMETRY; SPATIAL VARIATIONS; SURFACE VELOCITY; SURFACE VELOCITY DISTRIBUTION; TIME INTERVAL;

LANDFORMS; METAMORPHIC ROCKS; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR; VELOCITY;

VELOCITY DISTRIBUTION;

ALOS; DATA SET; GLACIER; MEASUREMENT METHOD; PALYNOLOGY; SOFTWARE; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR; TEMPORAL VARIATION; VELOCITY;

KARAKORAM;

EID: 84867098951     PISSN: 18666280     EISSN: 18666299     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12665-012-1563-9     Document Type: Article

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