Recognition of supraglacial debris in the Tianshan Mountains on polarimetric SAR images

Remote Sensing of Environment

Volumn 145, Issue , 2014, Pages 47-54

  Huang, Lei ^a   Li, Zhen ^a   Tian, Bang sen ^a   Zhou, Jian min ^a   Chen, Quan ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

Author keywords

Classification; Debris; Glacier; Polarimetric SAR

Indexed keywords

EID: 84894376297     PISSN: 00344257     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.rse.2014.01.020     Document Type: Article

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