Remote-sensing assessment of glacier fluctuations in the Hindu Raj, Pakistan

International Journal of Remote Sensing

Volumn 34, Issue 11, 2013, Pages 3968-3985

  Sarikaya, Mehmet A ^a,b   Bishop, Michael P ^a   Shroder, John F ^a   Ali, Ghazanfar ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA AT OMAHA   (United States)

^b FATIH UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^c Global Change Impact Studies Centre   (Pakistan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

SENSORS;

ADVANCED SPACEBORNE THERMAL EMISSION AND REFLECTION RADIOMETER; GLACIER FLUCTUATIONS; HIMALAYAS; LANDSAT; LIMITED INFORMATION; LOCAL TOPOGRAPHY; MOUNTAIN GLACIERS; PAKISTAN; REGIONAL CLIMATE; SPACE-BASED; SPATIAL TRENDS; SPATIAL VARIATIONS; SUMMER TEMPERATURE; TIME-SERIES DATA;

REMOTE SENSING;

ASTER; GLACIER DYNAMICS; GLACIER RETREAT; ICE FLOW; LANDSAT; MOUNTAIN REGION; REMOTE SENSING; TEMPERATURE EFFECT; TIME SERIES ANALYSIS;

HINDU RAJ; PAKISTAN;

EID: 84874622927     PISSN: 01431161     EISSN: 13665901     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/01431161.2013.770580     Document Type: Article

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