Glacier velocity estimation by means of a polarimetric similarity measure

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 51, Issue 6, 2013, Pages 3319-3327

  Erten, Esra ^a  

^a ISTANBUL TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Cryosphere; glacier monitoring; mutual information (MI); polarimetry; synthetic aperture radar (SAR)

Indexed keywords

CRYOSPHERE; GLACIER MONITORING; GLACIER SURFACE VELOCITY; MUTUAL INFORMATIONS; POLARIMETRIC SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADARS; REMOTE SENSING DATA; STATISTICAL DEPENDENCE; VELOCITY ESTIMATION;

ELLIPSOMETRY; INFORMATION THEORY; POLARIMETERS; POLARIZATION; VELOCITY;

SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR;

CRYOSPHERE; ENVISAT-1; ESTIMATION METHOD; FREQUENCY ANALYSIS; GEOMETRY; GLACIAL ENVIRONMENT; MONITORING; POLARIZATION; REMOTE SENSING; SATELLITE DATA; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR; VELOCITY;

KYRGYZSTAN; SWITZERLAND;

EID: 84878146046     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TGRS.2012.2219873     Document Type: Article

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