Derivation and validation of supraglacial lake volumes on the Greenland Ice Sheet from high-resolution satellite imagery

Remote Sensing of Environment

Volumn 183, Issue , 2016, Pages 294-303

  Moussavi, Mahsa S ^a   Abdalati, Waleed ^a   Pope, Allen ^a   Scambos, Ted ^a   Tedesco, Marco ^b,c   MacFerrin, Michael ^a   Grigsby, Shane ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

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

^c NASA GODDARD INSTITUTE FOR SPACE STUDIES   (United States)

Author keywords

Greenland Ice Sheet hydrology; High resolution digital elevation model (DEM); Spectrally based depth retrieval models; Supraglacial water depth; WorldView 2 satellite

Indexed keywords

BATHYMETRY; GLACIAL GEOLOGY; GLACIERS; HYDROGRAPHIC SURVEYS; HYDROLOGY; ICE; LAKES; REFLECTION; REMOTE SENSING; SATELLITE IMAGERY; SURVEYING;

DIGITAL ELEVATION MODEL; GREENLAND ICE SHEET; RETRIEVAL MODELS; WATER DEPTH; WORLDVIEW-2;

STEREO IMAGE PROCESSING;

BATHYMETRY; DIGITAL ELEVATION MODEL; IMAGE RESOLUTION; IN SITU MEASUREMENT; LACUSTRINE ENVIRONMENT; MELTWATER; MODEL VALIDATION; REMOTE SENSING; SATELLITE IMAGERY; SPECTRAL REFLECTANCE; WATER DEPTH; WORLDVIEW;

ARCTIC; GREENLAND; GREENLAND ICE SHEET;

EID: 84979901347     PISSN: 00344257     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.rse.2016.05.024     Document Type: Article

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