The inylchek glacier in Kyrgyzstan, Central Asia: Insight on surface kinematics from optical remote sensing imagery

Remote Sensing

Volumn 6, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 841-856

  Nobakht, Mohamad ^a,b   Motagh, Mahdi ^b,c   Wetzel, Hans Ulrich ^c   Roessner, Sigrid ^c   Kaufmann, Hermann ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF READING   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEHRAN   (Iran)

^c GFZ GERMAN RESEARCH CENTRE FOR GEOSCIENCES   (Germany)

Author keywords

ASTER; Image cross correlation; Inylchek glacier; Landsat

Indexed keywords

ASTER; CROSS-CORRELATION ANALYSIS; IMAGE CROSS-CORRELATION; LANDSAT; OPTICAL REMOTE-SENSING IMAGERY; SATELLITE REMOTE SENSING; SPATIO-TEMPORAL VARIATION; TEMPORAL AND SPATIAL CHANGES;

CLIMATE CHANGE; KINEMATICS; REMOTE SENSING; TIME SERIES ANALYSIS; VELOCITY; WATER RESOURCES; WATER SUPPLY; SATELLITE IMAGERY;

SATELLITE IMAGERY; REMOTE SENSING;

EID: 84893429552     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20724292     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/rs6010841     Document Type: Article

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