An inter-comparison of techniques for determining velocities of maritime arctic glaciers, Svalbard, using Radarsat-2 wide Fine mode data

Remote Sensing

Volumn 8, Issue 9, 2016, Pages

  Schellenberger, Thomas ^a   Van Wychen, Wesley ^b   Copland, Luke ^b   Kääb, Andreas ^a   Gray, Laurence ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OSLO   (Norway)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Glacier velocity; Radarsat 2Wide Fine; SAR offset and speckle tracking; Svalbard

Indexed keywords

MATLAB; REMOTE SENSING; SPECKLE;

GLACIER DYNAMICS; PIXEL RESOLUTION; RADARSAT-2; SPATIAL COVERAGE; SPECKLE TRACKING; SVALBARD; TIDEWATER GLACIERS; TRACKING ALGORITHM;

SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR;

EID: 85007313180     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20724292     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/rs8090785     Document Type: Article

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