Reproducibly estimating and evaluating supraglacial lake depth with Landsat 8 and other multispectral sensors

Earth and Space Science

Volumn 3, Issue 4, 2016, Pages 176-188

  Pope, Allen ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

Author keywords

glacial hydrology; Greenland; Landsat; MATLAB; multispectral; supraglacial lakes

Indexed keywords

EID: 84987739446     PISSN: None     EISSN: 23335084     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/2015EA000125     Document Type: Article

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