Water-level changes in China's large lakes determined from ICESat/GLAS data

Remote Sensing of Environment

Volumn 132, Issue , 2013, Pages 131-144

  Wang, Xianwei ^a,d   Gong, Peng ^a,b,c   Zhao, Yuanyuan ^b   Xu, Yue ^d   Cheng, Xiao ^d   Niu, Zhenguo ^a   Luo, Zhicai ^e   Huang, Huabing ^a   Sun, Fangdi ^f   Li, Xiaowen ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

^b TSINGHUA UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d BEIJING NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^e WUHAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^f NANJING UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Change detection; China; GLAS; ICESat; Lake; Laser altimetry; Water level

Indexed keywords

CHANGE DETECTION; CHINA; GLAS; ICESAT; LASER ALTIMETRY;

CLIMATOLOGY; WATER LEVELS; WATER SUPPLY;

LAKES;

ALTIMETRY; DESERTIFICATION; HUMAN ACTIVITY; ICESAT; LAKE WATER; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); SATELLITE DATA; SOIL EROSION; TEMPORAL PERIOD; WATER LEVEL;

CHINA;

EID: 84873486794     PISSN: 00344257     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.rse.2013.01.005     Document Type: Article

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