Heterogeneous mass loss of glaciers in the Aksu-Tarim Catchment (Central Tien Shan) revealed by 1976 KH-9 Hexagon and 2009 SPOT-5 stereo imagery

Remote Sensing of Environment

Volumn 130, Issue , 2013, Pages 233-244

  Pieczonka, Tino ^a   Bolch, Tobias ^a,b   Junfeng, Wei ^c   Shiyin, Liu ^c  

^a DRESDEN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^c Chinese Academy of Sciences   (China)

Author keywords

Central Tien Shan; Change assessment; DTM; Geodetic glacier mass budget; KH 9 Hexagon; SPOT 5

Indexed keywords

CENTRAL TIEN SHAN; CHANGE ASSESSMENT; DTM; KH-9 HEXAGON; MASS BUDGET; SPOT-5;

BUDGET CONTROL; CATCHMENTS; DEBRIS;

RUNOFF;

DIGITAL TERRAIN MODEL; GEODETIC NETWORK; GLACIER MASS BALANCE; HETEROGENEITY; MELTWATER; SATELLITE IMAGERY; SHUTTLE RADAR TOPOGRAPHY MISSION; SPOT;

AKSU BASIN; CHINA; TARIM BASIN; XINJIANG UYGUR;

EID: 84871849083     PISSN: 00344257     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.rse.2012.11.020     Document Type: Article

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