Modeling and analysis of lake water storage changes on the Tibetan Plateau using multi-mission satellite data

Remote Sensing of Environment

Volumn 135, Issue , 2013, Pages 25-35

  Song, Chunqiao ^a   Huang, Bo ^a   Ke, Linghong ^b  

^a CHINESE UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

^b HONG KONG POLYTECHNIC UNIVERSITY   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

Climate change; Lakes; Satellite imagery; Tibetan Plateau; Water storage

Indexed keywords

MODELING AND ANALYSIS; MULTI-MISSION SATELLITES; OPTICAL REMOTE SENSING; SATELLITE ALTIMETRY DATA; SATELLITE GRAVIMETRIES; STATISTICAL RELATIONSHIP; TIBETAN PLATEAU; WATER STORAGE;

BUDGET CONTROL; CLIMATE CHANGE; DATA INTEGRATION; DIGITAL STORAGE; ESTIMATION; GEODETIC SATELLITES; GRAVIMETERS; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; OCEANOGRAPHY; OPTICAL DATA STORAGE; SATELLITE IMAGERY; TIME SERIES; WATER LEVELS;

LAKES;

ALPINE ENVIRONMENT; CLIMATE CHANGE; EMPIRICAL ANALYSIS; GLACIAL LAKE; GRAVIMETRY; ICESAT; LAKE WATER; LANDSAT MULTISPECTRAL SCANNER; LANDSAT THEMATIC MAPPER; MASS BALANCE; MELTWATER; NUMERICAL MODEL; REMOTE SENSING; SATELLITE ALTIMETRY; SATELLITE DATA; SATELLITE IMAGERY; SATELLITE MISSION; TIME SERIES; WATER STORAGE;

CHINA; QINGHAI-XIZANG PLATEAU;

EID: 84876313019     PISSN: 00344257     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.rse.2013.03.013     Document Type: Article

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