Interferometric swath processing of Cryosat data for glacial ice topography

Cryosphere

Volumn 7, Issue 6, 2013, Pages 1857-1867

  Gray, L ^a   Burgess, D ^b   Copland, L ^a   Cullen, R ^c   Galin, N ^d   Hawley, R ^e   Helm, V ^f  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA   (Canada)

^b GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF CANADA   (Canada)

^c Vega Space Ltd   (United Kingdom)

^d NOAA EARTH SYSTEM RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^e Dartmouth College ^*  (United States)

^f ALFRED WEGENER INSTITUTE FOR POLAR AND MARINE RESEARCH   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CRYOSAT-2; DIGITAL ELEVATION MODEL; RADAR INTERFEROMETRY; SATELLITE ALTIMETRY; SATELLITE DATA; SWATH BATHYMETRY; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR; TOPOGRAPHIC MAPPING;

CANADA; DEVON ICE CAP; NUNAVUT;

EID: 84890506099     PISSN: 19940416     EISSN: 19940424     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/tc-7-1857-2013     Document Type: Article

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