Toward monitoring surface and subsurface lakes on the Greenland ice sheet using sentinel-1 SAR and landsat-8 OLI imagery

Frontiers in Earth Science

Volumn 5, Issue , 2017, Pages

  Miles, Katie E ^a,b   Willis, Ian C ^a   Benedek, Corinne L ^a   Williamson, Andrew G ^a   Tedesco, Marco ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^b ABERYSTWYTH UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^c International Research Institute for Climate and Society   (United States)

Author keywords

Drainage; Greenland; Hydrology; Landsat 8; Satellite remote sensing; Sentinel 1; Supraglacial lakes

Indexed keywords

AUTOMATION; DRAINAGE; GLACIERS; HYDROLOGY; ICE; LAKES; RADIOMETERS; REMOTE SENSING; SATELLITE IMAGERY; SPACE-BASED RADAR; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR;

AUTOMATED ALGORITHMS; DETECTION ALGORITHM; GREENLAND; GREENLAND ICE SHEET; LANDSAT; SATELLITE REMOTE SENSING; SENTINEL-1; TEMPORAL RESOLUTION;

RADAR IMAGING;

DETECTION METHOD; ELEVATION; FIRN; FREEZING; GLACIAL LAKE; GLACIER MASS BALANCE; ICE COVER; ICE SHEET; MELTING; MODIS; MONITORING; SATELLITE IMAGERY; SPATIAL RESOLUTION; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR;

ARCTIC; GREENLAND; GREENLAND ICE SHEET; WEST GREENLAND;

EID: 85027686664     PISSN: None     EISSN: 22966463     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/feart.2017.00058     Document Type: Article

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