Elevation changes of bering glacier system, Alaska, from 1992 to 2010, observed by satellite radar altimetry

Remote Sensing of Environment

Volumn 132, Issue , 2013, Pages 40-48

  Lee, Hyongki ^a   Shum, C K ^b,c   Tseng, Kuo Hsin ^b   Huang, Zhenwei ^b   Sohn, Hong Gyoo ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HOUSTON   (United States)

^b OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c Wuhan National Laboratory for Optoelectronics   (China)

^d Yonsei University   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Bering Glacier; Climate change; Elevation changes; Satellite Radar Altimetry

Indexed keywords

ANTARCTICA; ELEVATION CHANGES; ENVISAT; GREENLAND; ICE-SHEET ELEVATION; MOUNTAIN GLACIERS; RADAR ALTIMETERS; REPEATED MEASUREMENTS; ROUGH TERRAINS; SATELLITE RADAR ALTIMETRY; SNOW DEPTHS; STEEP SLOPE; SURFACE ELEVATIONS; TOPEX/POSEIDON;

CLIMATE CHANGE; RADAR; RADAR MEASUREMENT;

GEODETIC SATELLITES;

GLACIER DYNAMICS; ICE SHEET; MEASUREMENT METHOD; RADAR ALTIMETRY; ROUGHNESS; SATELLITE IMAGERY; TERRAIN;

ALASKA; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84873463648     PISSN: 00344257     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.rse.2013.01.007     Document Type: Article

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