Revealing glacier flow and surge dynamics from animated satellite image sequences: Examples from the Karakoram

Cryosphere

Volumn 9, Issue 6, 2015, Pages 2201-2214

  Paul, F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FLOW VELOCITY; GLACIER ADVANCE; GLACIER DYNAMICS; GLACIER FLOW; GLACIER MASS BALANCE; GLACIER SURGE; IMAGE ANALYSIS; LANDSAT; SATELLITE IMAGERY; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; TIME SERIES ANALYSIS;

KARAKORAM;

EID: 84939268506     PISSN: 19940416     EISSN: 19940424     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/tc-9-2201-2015     Document Type: Article

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