Deriving large-scale glacier velocities from a complete satellite archive: Application to the Pamir-Karakoram-Himalaya

Remote Sensing of Environment

Volumn 162, Issue , 2015, Pages 55-66

  Dehecq, Amaury ^a   Gourmelen, Noel ^b   Trouve, Emmanuel ^a  

^a Université de Savoie   (France)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Feature tracking; Himalaya; Karakoram; Landsat; Mountain glaciers; Remote sensing; Surface velocity

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; LANDFORMS; METAMORPHIC ROCKS; REMOTE SENSING; SATELLITES; STRAIN RATE;

FEATURE-TRACKING; HIMALAYAS; KARAKORAM; LANDSAT; MOUNTAIN GLACIERS; SURFACE VELOCITY;

VELOCITY;

DATA SET; ERROR ANALYSIS; GLACIER DYNAMICS; GLACIER FLOW; IMAGE ANALYSIS; LANDSAT; PIXEL; SATELLITE IMAGERY;

HIMALAYAS; KARAKORAM; PAMIRS;

EID: 84923535524     PISSN: 00344257     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.rse.2015.01.031     Document Type: Article

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