Estimating supraglacial lake depth in West Greenland using Landsat 8 and comparison with other multispectral methods

Cryosphere

Volumn 10, Issue 1, 2016, Pages 15-27

  Pope, A ^a,b   Scambos, T A ^a   Moussavi, M ^a   Tedesco, M ^c,e   Willis, M ^d,f   Shean, D ^b   Grigsby, S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^c CITY COLLEGE OF NEW YORK   (United States)

^d Institute for the Study of the Continents   (United States)

^e Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences   (United States)

^f UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BATHYMETRY; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DIGITAL ELEVATION MODEL; GLACIAL LAKE; LANDSAT; PERFORMANCE ASSESSMENT; REMOTE SENSING; SEASONAL VARIATION; SENSOR; WATER DEPTH; WORLDVIEW;

ARCTIC; GREENLAND; SERMEQ AVANNARLEQ; WEST GREENLAND;

EID: 84962127967     PISSN: 19940416     EISSN: 19940424     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/tc-10-15-2016     Document Type: Article

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