Using atmospherically-corrected Landsat imagery to measure glacier area change in the Cordillera Blanca, Peru from 1987 to 2010

Remote Sensing of Environment

Volumn 140, Issue , 2014, Pages 165-178

  Burns, Patrick ^a   Nolin, Anne ^a  

^a OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Atmospheric correction; Cordillera Blanca; Glacier change; Landsat

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC CORRECTIONS; CORDILLERA BLANCA; DEBRIS-COVERED GLACIER; GLACIER CHANGE; HIGH RESOLUTION SATELLITE IMAGERY; LANDSAT; LANDSAT THEMATIC MAPPER; NORMALIZED DIFFERENCE SNOW INDICES;

DEBRIS; DROUGHT; SATELLITE IMAGERY;

ESTIMATION;

ATMOSPHERIC CORRECTION; GLACIER DYNAMICS; LANDSAT; LANDSAT THEMATIC MAPPER; SATELLITE IMAGERY; TOPOGRAPHIC EFFECT; WATER AVAILABILITY;

ANCASH; CORDILLERA BLANCA; CORDILLERA OCCIDENTAL [PERU]; PERU;

EID: 84884383850     PISSN: 00344257     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.rse.2013.08.026     Document Type: Article

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