Imaging spectroscopy to assess the composition of ice surface materials and their impact on glacier mass balance

Remote Sensing of Environment

Volumn 168, Issue , 2015, Pages 388-402

  Naegeli, Kathrin ^a   Damm, Alexander ^b   Huss, Matthias ^a,c   Schaepman, Michael ^b   Hoelzle, Martin ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FRIBOURG   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^c ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Albedo; APEX; Glacier; Imaging spectroscopy; Light absorbing impurities; Mass balance modelling; Remote sensing

Indexed keywords

ABLATION; BUDGET CONTROL; GLACIERS; IMPURITIES; PIXELS; REMOTE SENSING; SNOW; SOLAR RADIATION; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; SPECTROMETERS;

AIRBORNE PRISM EXPERIMENTS; ALBEDO; APEX; HETEROGENEOUS MIXTURES; IMAGING SPECTROSCOPY; MASS BALANCE; PIXEL BASED CLASSIFICATIONS; SPECTROSCOPIC MEASUREMENTS;

ICE;

ABLATION; ALBEDO; ASSESSMENT METHOD; DEBRIS FLOW; GLACIER MASS BALANCE; MELTING; PIXEL; REMOTE SENSING; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; SPECTROSCOPY;

BERN [SWITZERLAND]; PLAINE MORTE GLACIER; SWITZERLAND;

EID: 84939602009     PISSN: 00344257     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.rse.2015.07.006     Document Type: Article

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