Mapping snow depth in open alpine terrain from stereo satellite imagery

Cryosphere

Volumn 10, Issue 4, 2016, Pages 1361-1380

  Marti, R ^a,b   Gascoin, S ^b   Berthier, E ^a   De Pinel, M ^c   Houet, T ^a   Laffly, D ^a  

^a CNRS   (France)

^b CNES   (France)

^c GeoFalco ^*  (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AIRBORNE SENSOR; ALPINE ENVIRONMENT; DEPTH DETERMINATION; DIGITAL ELEVATION MODEL; GEOLOGICAL MAPPING; PHOTOGRAMMETRY; PIXEL; PLEIADES; SATELLITE IMAGERY; SNOW COVER; SOFTWARE; TERRAIN; UNMANNED VEHICLE;

EID: 84977600695     PISSN: 19940416     EISSN: 19940424     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/tc-10-1361-2016     Document Type: Article

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