Antarctica: Measuring Glacier Velocity from Satellite Images

Many Landsat images of Antarctica show distinctive flow and crevasse features in the floating part of ice streams and outlet glaciers immediately below their grounding zones. Some of the features, which move with the glacier or ice stream, remain visible over many years and thus allow time-lapse mea...

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Bibliographic Details
Published in:Science
Main Authors: Lucchitta, B. K., Ferguson, H. M.
Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
Language:English
Published: American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) 1986
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Online Access:http://dx.doi.org/10.1126/science.234.4780.1105
https://www.science.org/doi/pdf/10.1126/science.234.4780.1105