Velocity estimation of glaciers with physically-based spatial regularization - Experiments using satellite SAR intensity images

Remote Sensing of Environment

Volumn 172, Issue , 2016, Pages 190-204

  Maksymiuk, Oliver ^a   Mayer, Christoph ^b   Stilla, Uwe ^a  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^b BAVARIAN ACADEMY OF SCIENCES AND HUMANITIES   (Germany)

Author keywords

Data assimilation; Delineation; Finite elements; Fluid dynamics; Glacier; Intensity tracking; Navier Stokes; PDE constrained optimization; Physics; SAR; Segmentation; Skeleton; Spatial regularization; Velocity estimation

Indexed keywords

CONSTRAINED OPTIMIZATION; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; FLUID DYNAMICS; FLUID MECHANICS; GLACIERS; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; MOTION ESTIMATION; PHYSICS; RADAR IMAGING; SPACE-BASED RADAR; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR; VELOCITY; VISCOUS FLOW;

DATA ASSIMILATION; DELINEATION; NAVIER STOKES; PDE-CONSTRAINED OPTIMIZATION; SAR; SKELETON; SPATIAL REGULARIZATIONS; VELOCITY ESTIMATION;

NAVIER STOKES EQUATIONS;

DATA ASSIMILATION; ERROR CORRECTION; FLUID MECHANICS; GLACIER DYNAMICS; IMAGE ANALYSIS; MASS MOVEMENT; MONITORING SYSTEM; NAVIER-STOKES EQUATIONS; SATELLITE IMAGERY; SPATIAL ANALYSIS; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR; VELOCITY PROFILE;

ALASKA; JUNEAU ICEFIELD; PATAGONIA; TAKU GLACIER; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84947549793     PISSN: 00344257     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.rse.2015.11.007     Document Type: Article

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