Short-term glacier velocity changes at West Kunlun Shan, Northwest Tibet, detected by Synthetic Aperture Radar data

Remote Sensing of Environment

Volumn 128, Issue , 2013, Pages 87-106

  Yasuda, Takatoshi ^a   Furuya, Masato ^a  

^a HOKKAIDO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Glacier velocity; PALSAR; SAR; Surge; West Kunlun Shan

Indexed keywords

BASAL SLIP; GLACIER DYNAMICS; GLACIER SURFACE VELOCITY; GREENLAND ICE SHEET; HIGH ARCTIC; MULTI-TEMPORAL; PALSAR; POLYTHERMAL GLACIERS; RADAR IMAGE; SAR; SATELLITE RADAR; SURFACE VELOCITY; SURGE; TEMPORAL EVOLUTION; VELOCITY CHANGES; VELOCITY PROFILES; WEST KUNLUN;

DEBRIS; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR;

VELOCITY;

ARCTIC ENVIRONMENT; CLASSIFICATION; FLOW VELOCITY; GLACIER ADVANCE; GLACIER DYNAMICS; GLACIER FLOW; GLACIER SURGE; RADAR IMAGERY; SEASONAL VARIATION; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR; TEMPORAL EVOLUTION; VELOCITY PROFILE;

CHINA; KUNLUN MOUNTAINS; XIZANG;

EID: 84868255143     PISSN: 00344257     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.rse.2012.09.021     Document Type: Article

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