Glacier elevation changes (2012–2016) of the Puruogangri Ice Field on the Tibetan Plateau derived from bi-temporal TanDEM-X InSAR data

International Journal of Remote Sensing

Volumn 37, Issue 24, 2016, Pages 5687-5707

  Liu, Lin ^a,b   Jiang, Liming ^a,b   Sun, Yafei ^a,b   Yi, Chaolu ^c   Wang, Hansheng ^a   Hsu, Houtse ^a  

^a Wuhan National Laboratory for Optoelectronics   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

^c INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GLACIERS; GLOBAL POSITIONING SYSTEM; ICE;

ANNUAL PRECIPITATION; DIGITAL ELEVATION MODEL; HEIGHT MEASUREMENT; INTERFEROMETRIC PROCESSING; LAND ELEVATION SATELLITES; MOUNTAIN GLACIERS; SUMMER TEMPERATURE; SURFACE ELEVATION CHANGES;

SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR;

DIGITAL ELEVATION MODEL; GLACIER; ICE FIELD; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR; TERRASAR-X;

CHINA; PURUOGANGRI GLACIER; QINGHAI-XIZANG PLATEAU; XIZANG;

EID: 84997427863     PISSN: 01431161     EISSN: 13665901     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/01431161.2016.1246777     Document Type: Article

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