Recent changes in the snout position and surface velocity of Gangotri glacier observed from space

International Journal of Remote Sensing

Volumn 34, Issue 24, 2013, Pages 8653-8668

  Saraswat, Puneet ^a   Syed, Tajdarul H ^a   Famiglietti, James S ^b   Fielding, Eric J ^c   Crippen, Robert ^c   Gupta, Nishant ^a  

^a INDIAN SCHOOL OF MINES   (India)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CATCHMENTS; INTERFEROMETRY; RADAR REFLECTION; SATELLITE IMAGERY; SEA LEVEL; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR; VELOCITY;

ADVANCED SPACEBORNE THERMAL EMISSION AND REFLECTION RADIOMETER; GANGOTRI GLACIER; GLACIER SURFACE VELOCITY; GLOBAL WATER CYCLE; INTERFEROMETRIC TECHNIQUES; MASS VARIATIONS; OFFSET TRACKING; SURFACE VELOCITY;

SPACE-BASED RADAR;

ASTER; CATCHMENT; GLACIER DYNAMICS; GLACIER MASS BALANCE; INTERFEROMETRY; SATELLITE IMAGERY;

GANGES RIVER; HIMALAYAS;

EID: 84889593936     PISSN: 01431161     EISSN: 13665901     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/01431161.2013.845923     Document Type: Article

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