A GIS tool for automatic calculation of glacier equilibrium-line altitudes

Computers and Geosciences

Volumn 82, Issue , 2015, Pages 55-62

  Pellitero, Ramón ^a   Rea, Brice R ^a   Spagnolo, Matteo ^a   Bakke, Jostein ^a   Hughes, Philip ^b   Ivy Ochs, Susan ^c   Lukas, Sven ^d   Ribolini, Adriano ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ABERDEEN   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

^c ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^d QUEEN MARY UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^e UNIVERSITY OF PISA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Accumulation area balance ratio; Accumulation area ratio; Equilibrium line altitude; GIS; Glacier; Python

Indexed keywords

GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEMS; GEOLOGY; GLACIERS; INFORMATION SYSTEMS;

ACCUMULATION AREA BALANCE RATIO; AREA RATIOS; AUTOMATIC CALCULATIONS; EQUILIBRIUM LINE ALTITUDES; GLACIER RECONSTRUCTION; LARGE DATASETS; PYTHON; RECONSTRUCTED SURFACES;

HIGH LEVEL LANGUAGES;

DATA SET; GEOACCUMULATION; GIS; GLACIER DYNAMICS; RECONSTRUCTION; SATELLITE DATA; SATELLITE IMAGERY;

EID: 84930942676     PISSN: 00983004     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cageo.2015.05.005     Document Type: Article

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