Estimating subglacial water geometry using radar bed echo specularity: Application to Thwaites Glacier, West Antarctica

IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Letters

Volumn 12, Issue 3, 2015, Pages 443-447

  Schroeder, Dustin M ^a   Blankenship, Donald D ^a   Raney, R Keith ^b   Grima, Cyril ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

^b NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

Ice penetrating radar; Radar sounding; Scattering function; Subglacial hydrology

Indexed keywords

CATCHMENTS; ICE; TERNARY SYSTEMS;

CROSS-SECTIONAL MODELS; ICE/WATER INTERFACE; PENETRATING RADAR; PHYSICAL DIMENSIONS; RADAR SOUNDINGS; ROOT MEAN SQUARE ROUGHNESS; SCATTERING FUNCTIONS; SUBGLACIAL HYDROLOGY;

RADAR;

EID: 84907972293     PISSN: 1545598X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/LGRS.2014.2337878     Document Type: Article

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