Satellite Remote Sensing of Permafrost and Seasonally Frozen Ground

Remote Sensing in Northern Hydrology: Measuring Environmental Change

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 91-118

  Duguay, Claude R ^a   Zhang, Tingjun ^c   Leverington, David W ^b   Romanovsky, Vladimir E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALASKA FAIRBANKS   (United States)

^b TEXAS TECH UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

Author keywords

Ice Remote sensing; Snow Remote sensing

Indexed keywords

ANTENNAS; CLASSIFICATION (OF INFORMATION); PERMAFROST; SATELLITE IMAGERY; SOIL MECHANICS; SPACE SURVEILLANCE; THAWING;

HIGH RESOLUTION SATELLITE IMAGES; ICE REMOTE SENSING; PERMAFROST DEGRADATION; REMOTE SENSING CLASSIFICATION; REMOTE SENSING DATA; REMOTE SENSING TECHNIQUES; SATELLITE REMOTE SENSING; SEASONALLY FROZEN GROUND;

REMOTE SENSING;

EID: 84953851680     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1029/163GM06     Document Type: Chapter

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