Estimating the extent of drained supraglacial lakes on the Greenland Ice Sheet

International Journal of Remote Sensing

Volumn 34, Issue 13, 2013, Pages 4754-4768

  Lettang, Francesca J ^a   Crocker, Roger I ^a   Emery, William J ^a   Maslanik, James A ^a  

^a University of Colorado at Boulder   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BUDGET CONTROL; CLIMATE MODELS; FIGHTER AIRCRAFT; GLACIERS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; LAKES; SATELLITE IMAGERY;

AIRBORNE IMAGERY; COMMON FEATURES; ENHANCED THEMATIC MAPPER PLUS (ETM+); GREENLAND ICE SHEET; IN-SITU MEASUREMENT; SPECTRAL SIGNATURE; TEXTURAL ANALYSIS; WATER BALANCE;

ICE;

ABLATION; AIRBORNE SENSING; AIRBORNE SURVEY; CLIMATE MODELING; DETECTION METHOD; ESTIMATION METHOD; GLACIAL LAKE; ICE FLOW; ICE SHEET; IN SITU MEASUREMENT; LANDSAT THEMATIC MAPPER; SATELLITE IMAGERY; WATER BUDGET;

ARCTIC; GREENLAND; GREENLAND ICE SHEET;

EID: 84876441060     PISSN: 01431161     EISSN: 13665901     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/01431161.2013.782118     Document Type: Article

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