Monitoring of Historical Glacier Recession in Yulong Mountain by the Integration of Multisource Remote Sensing Data

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

Volumn 11, Issue 2, 2018, Pages 388-400

  Yue, Linwei ^a   Shen, Huanfeng ^b   Yu, Wei ^c   Zhang, Liangpei ^a  

^a CHINA UNIVERSITY OF GEOSCIENCES   (China)

^b WUHAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c ALIBABA GROUP   (China)

Author keywords

Glacier change; monsoonal temperate glacier; multisource data fusion; remote sensing; Yulong Mountain

Indexed keywords

DATA FUSION; EARTH (PLANET); GEOLOGY; GLOBAL WARMING; LANDFORMS; MAPS; METEOROLOGY; MONITORING; RIVERS; SATELLITES;

DIGITAL ELEVATION MODEL; GLACIER CHANGE; GLOBAL CLIMATE WARMING; MULTISOURCE DATA; MULTISOURCE REMOTE SENSING DATA; RISING TEMPERATURES; TEMPERATE GLACIERS; YULONG MOUNTAIN;

REMOTE SENSING;

DATA INTERPRETATION; DIGITAL ELEVATION MODEL; GLACIER RETREAT; GLOBAL WARMING; LANDSAT THEMATIC MAPPER; MONITORING; MOUNTAIN REGION; REMOTE SENSING; SATELLITE DATA; SATELLITE IMAGERY; TOPOGRAPHIC MAPPING;

CHINA; YULONG SNOW MOUNTAINS; YUNNAN;

EID: 85041848986     PISSN: 19391404     EISSN: 21511535     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JSTARS.2017.2776901     Document Type: Article

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