Surface velocities and ice-front positions of eight major glaciers in the Southern Patagonian Ice Field, South America, from 2002 to 2011

Remote Sensing of Environment

Volumn 139, Issue , 2013, Pages 50-59

  Muto, Minami ^a   Furuya, Masato ^a  

^a HOKKAIDO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Calving glacier; Glacier velocity; Southern Patagonia; Synthetic aperture radar

Indexed keywords

ABSOLUTE VELOCITIES; ADVANCED SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADARS; ENVIRONMENTAL SATELLITES; EUROPEAN SPACE AGENCY; L-BAND SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADARS; OBSERVATION SATELLITES; PATAGONIA; TEMPORAL EVOLUTION;

FLOW VELOCITY; GEODETIC SATELLITES; GLACIERS; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR; VELOCITY;

ICE;

FLOW VELOCITY; FRONTAL FEATURE; GLACIER DYNAMICS; GLACIER FLOW; GLACIER RETREAT; ICE FIELD; ICE THICKNESS; SATELLITE IMAGERY; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS;

PATAGONIA; SOUTH AMERICA;

EID: 84882937482     PISSN: 00344257     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.rse.2013.07.034     Document Type: Article

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