Observations of supra-glacial lakes in west Greenland using winter wide swath Synthetic Aperture Radar

Remote Sensing Letters

Volumn 3, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 531-539

  Johansson, Anna Malin ^a   Brown, Ian A ^a  

^a STOCKHOLM UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GLACIAL GEOLOGY; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; INFRARED DEVICES; LAKES; RADAR; RADIOMETERS; SATELLITE IMAGERY; SNOW;

GREENLAND ICE SHEET; HIGH TEMPORAL RESOLUTION; ICE AND SNOW COVER; MODERATE RESOLUTION IMAGING SPECTRORADIOMETER; MODIS IMAGERY; SPATIAL RESOLUTION; VISIBLE NEAR-INFRARED; WEST GREENLAND;

SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR;

EID: 84881048568     PISSN: 2150704X     EISSN: 21507058     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/01431161.2011.637527     Document Type: Article

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