SEASONAL TRENDS in TIBETAN LAKE LEVEL CHANGES AS OBSERVED by ICESAT LASER ALTIMETRY

ISPRS Annals of the Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing and Spatial Information Sciences

Volumn 1, Issue , 2012, Pages 237-242

  Phan, V H ^a   Lindenbergh, R ^a   Menenti, M ^a  

^a DELFT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

change detection; climate; hydrology; LIDAR; satellite; understanding

Indexed keywords

EID: 84903472002     PISSN: 21949042     EISSN: 21949050     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.5194/isprsannals-I-7-237-2012     Document Type: Conference Paper

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