Recent Glacier Dynamics in the Northern Novaya Zemlya Observed by Multiple Geodetic Techniques

IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and Remote Sensing

Volumn 10, Issue 4, 2017, Pages 1290-1302

  Sun, Zhiyue ^a   Lee, Hyongki ^a   Ahn, Yushin ^b   Aierken, Abureli ^a   Tseng, Kuo Hsin ^c   Okeowo, Modurodoluwa A ^a   Shum, C K ^d,e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HOUSTON   (United States)

^b Michigan Technology University   (United States)

^c NATIONAL CENTRAL UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^d OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e Wuhan National Laboratory for Optoelectronics   (China)

Author keywords

Atmosphere interaction; glacier elevation change; glacier mass change; glacier velocity estimation; marine terminating glacier; Novaya Zemlya (NVZ)

Indexed keywords

SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR;

GEODETIC OBSERVATION; GEODETIC TECHNIQUE; GLACIER DYNAMICS; GRAVITY RECOVERY AND CLIMATE EXPERIMENT DATUM; INTERANNUAL VARIATION; MATCHING TECHNIQUES; SIMILAR ANALYSIS; VELOCITY ESTIMATION;

GEODESY;

ESTIMATION METHOD; GEODESY; GLACIER DYNAMICS; GRACE; OUTFLOW; SEA ICE; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR;

ARCTIC OCEAN; ARKHANGELSK [RUSSIAN FEDERATION]; BARENTS SEA; NOVAYA ZEMLYA; RUSSIAN FEDERATION;

EID: 85010685738     PISSN: 19391404     EISSN: 21511535     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JSTARS.2016.2643568     Document Type: Article

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