Elevation change and improved velocity retrieval using orthorectified optical satellite data from different orbits

Remote Sensing

Volumn 9, Issue 3, 2017, Pages

  Altena, Bas ^a   Kääb, Andreas ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OSLO   (Norway)

Author keywords

Cross track offset; Glacier motion; Image matching; Ortho rectification error; Triplet matching

Indexed keywords

BUDGET CONTROL; ERRORS; IMAGE ACQUISITION; IMAGE MATCHING; LANDFORMS; ORBITS; SATELLITES;

CROSS TRACK; DIGITAL ELEVATION MODEL; DISPLACEMENT ESTIMATION; DISPLACEMENT VECTORS; GLACIER MOTIONS; ORTHO-RECTIFICATION; TERRAIN REPRESENTATIONS; TRIPLET-MATCHING;

SURVEYING;

EID: 85019161784     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20724292     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/rs9030300     Document Type: Article

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