Adaptive classification of supra-glacial lakes on the west greenland ice sheet

IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and Remote Sensing

Volumn 6, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 1998-2007

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

^a STOCKHOLM UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Landsat; MODIS; multispectral satellite imagery; object tracking; remote sensing; remote sensing applications

Indexed keywords

LANDSAT; MODIS; MULTISPECTRAL SATELLITE IMAGERY; OBJECT TRACKING; REMOTE SENSING APPLICATIONS;

GLACIAL GEOLOGY; GLACIERS; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; RADIOMETERS; REMOTE SENSING; SATELLITE IMAGERY;

LAKES;

GLACIAL LAKE; HYDROLOGY; ICE SHEET; LANDSAT; MELTING; MELTWATER; MODIS; MULTISPECTRAL IMAGE; REMOTE SENSING; SATELLITE IMAGERY; SURFACE REFLECTANCE;

ARCTIC; GREENLAND; GREENLAND ICE SHEET;

EID: 84881052533     PISSN: 19391404     EISSN: 21511535     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JSTARS.2012.2233722     Document Type: Article

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