The glaciers climate change initiative: Methods for creating glacier area, elevation change and velocity products

Remote Sensing of Environment

Volumn 162, Issue , 2015, Pages 408-426

  Paul, Frank ^a   Bolch, Tobias ^a   Kääb, Andreas ^b   Nagler, Thomas ^c   Nuth, Christopher ^b   Scharrer, Killian ^c   Shepherd, Andrew ^d   Strozzi, Tazio ^e   Ticconi, Francesca ^d   Bhambri, Rakesh ^f   Berthier, Etienne ^g   Bevan, Suzanne ^h   Gourmelen, Noel ⁱ   Heid, Torborg ^b   Jeong, Seongsu ^j   Kunz, Matthias ^k   Lauknes, Tom Rune ^l   Luckman, Adrian ^h   Merryman Boncori, John Peter ^m   Moholdt, Geir ⁿ   Muir, Alan ^o   Neelmeijer, Julia ^p   Rankl, Melanie ^q   VanLooy, Jeffrey ^r   Van Niel, Thomas ^s   more..

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OSLO   (Norway)

^c ENVEO IT GMBH   (Austria)

^d UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

^e GAMMA REMOTE SENSING   (Switzerland)

^f WADIA INSTITUTE OF HIMALAYAN GEOLOGY   (India)

^g LEGOS   (France)

^h SWANSEA UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

ⁱ UNIVERSITÉ DE STRASBOURG   (France)

^j OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^k NEWCASTLE UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^l NORUT Tromsø   (Norway)

^m ISTITUTO NAZIONALE DI GEOFISICA E VULCANOLOGIA   (Italy)

ⁿ UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^o Department of Climate Modelling   (United Kingdom)

^p GFZ GERMAN RESEARCH CENTRE FOR GEOSCIENCES   (Germany)

^q UNIVERSITY OF ERLANGEN NUREMBERG   (Germany)

^r UNIVERSITY OF NORTH DAKOTA   (United States)

^s CSIRO   (Australia)

more..

Author keywords

Accuracy determination; Algorithm selection; Glacier area; Glacier elevation change; Glacier velocity; Optical and microwave remote sensing; Round robin experiment

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; MICROWAVE SENSORS; REMOTE SENSING; ROUTERS; SATELLITES; VELOCITY;

ACCURACY DETERMINATION; ALGORITHM SELECTION; DIGITAL ELEVATION MODEL; EUROPEAN SPACE AGENCY; GROUND BASED MEASUREMENT; MICROWAVE REMOTE SENSING; ROUND ROBIN; SATELLITE OBSERVATIONS;

CLIMATE CHANGE;

EID: 84928489795     PISSN: 00344257     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.rse.2013.07.043     Document Type: Article

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