Supraglacial streams on the greenland ice sheet delineated from combined spectral-shape information in high-resolution satellite imagery

IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Letters

Volumn 10, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 801-805

  Yang, Kang ^a   Smith, Laurence C ^b  

^a NANJING UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Fast marching method; Greenland Ice Sheet (GrIS); mathematical morphology; normalized difference water index (NDWI); supraglacial stream hydrology; WorldView 2

Indexed keywords

CLASSIFICATION PERFORMANCE; FAST MARCHING METHODS; GREENLAND ICE SHEET; HIGH RESOLUTION SATELLITE IMAGERY; HYDROLOGIC SYSTEMS; NORMALIZED DIFFERENCE WATER INDEX; PATTERN INFORMATION; WORLDVIEW-2;

ABLATION; GLACIERS; ICE; LAKES; MATHEMATICAL MORPHOLOGY; SEA LEVEL;

SATELLITE IMAGERY;

EID: 84876148033     PISSN: 1545598X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/LGRS.2012.2224316     Document Type: Article

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