Estimating river discharge during ice breakup from near-simultaneous satellite imagery

Cold Regions Science and Technology

Volumn 98, Issue , 2014, Pages 35-46

  Beltaos, Spyros ^a   Kääb, Andreas ^b  

^a ENVIRONMENT CANADA   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OSLO   (Norway)

Author keywords

Ice run; Logarithmic profile; River discharge; Satellite; Stereo imagery; Velocity field

Indexed keywords

AIRCRAFT ACQUISITIONS; BOUNDARY CONSTRAINTS; HYDRAULIC RESISTANCES; LOGARITHMIC PROFILES; REASONABLE ACCURACY; RIVER DISCHARGE; STEREO IMAGERY; VELOCITY FIELD;

ESTIMATION; RIVERS; SATELLITE IMAGERY; SATELLITES; VELOCITY;

ICE;

ACCURACY ASSESSMENT; ALOS; ICE BREAKUP; RIVER DISCHARGE; RIVER ICE; SATELLITE IMAGERY; SPATIAL RESOLUTION; STEREO IMAGE;

EID: 84888105409     PISSN: 0165232X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.coldregions.2013.10.010     Document Type: Article

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