A processing system to monitor Greenland outlet glacier velocity variations at decadal and seasonal time scales utilizing the Landsat imagery

Remote Sensing of Environment

Volumn 169, Issue , 2015, Pages 1-19

  Rosenau, R ^a   Scheinert, M ^a   Dietrich, R ^a  

^a DRESDEN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Flow velocity; Greenland; Landsat; Marine terminating glacier; Surface displacements

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE OPTICS; MONITORING; SURFACE MEASUREMENT; VELOCITY;

ADVANCED SPACEBORNE THERMAL EMISSION AND REFLECTION RADIOMETER; AUTOMATIC MONITORING-SYSTEM; DIGITAL ELEVATION MAP; GREENLAND; HIGH TEMPORAL RESOLUTION; LANDSAT; SURFACE DISPLACEMENT; TEMPORAL AND SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION;

FLOW VELOCITY;

ASTER; AUTOMATION; CORRECTION; DECADAL VARIATION; FLOW VELOCITY; GLACIER; LANDSAT; SATELLITE IMAGERY; SPATIAL RESOLUTION;

ARCTIC; GREENLAND; GREENLAND ICE SHEET;

EID: 84938818050     PISSN: 00344257     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.rse.2015.07.012     Document Type: Article

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