Weekly glacier flow estimation from dense satellite time series using adapted optical flow technology

Frontiers in Earth Science

Volumn 5, Issue , 2017, Pages

  Altena, Bas ^a   Kääb, Andreas ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OSLO   (Norway)

Author keywords

Multi sensor tracking; Optical flow; Particle tracking velocimetry; Space time imaging; Temporal glacier flow

Indexed keywords

AIR; OPTICAL CORRELATION; REMOTE SENSING; SATELLITES; STATISTICAL TESTS;

COMPUTATIONALLY EFFICIENT; DISPLACEMENT ESTIMATION; GLACIER FLOW; MULTI-SENSOR TRACKING; OPTICAL REMOTE SENSING; PARTICLE TRACKING VELOCIMETRY; SPACE-TIME IMAGING; SPATIO-TEMPORAL TRAJECTORIES;

OPTICAL FLOWS;

GLACIER FLOW; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE CLASSIFICATION; OPTICAL PROPERTY; SATELLITE IMAGERY; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; TIME SERIES ANALYSIS;

EID: 85019381198     PISSN: None     EISSN: 22966463     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/feart.2017.00053     Document Type: Article

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