The new Swiss Glacier Inventory SGI2010: Relevance of using high-resolution source data in areas dominated by very small glaciers

Arctic, Antarctic, and Alpine Research

Volumn 46, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 933-945

  Fischer, Mauro ^a   Huss, Matthias ^a   Barboux, Chloé ^a   Hoelzle, Martin ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FRIBOURG   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AERIAL PHOTOGRAPH; GLACIAL DEBRIS; GLACIER FLOW; ICE RETREAT; IMAGE CLASSIFICATION; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR;

ALPS; SWITZERLAND;

EID: 84908415287     PISSN: 15230430     EISSN: 19384246     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1657/1938-4246-46.4.933     Document Type: Article

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