MONITORING GLACIER VARIATIONS IN THE SOUTHERN PATAGONIA ICEFIELD UTILIZING IMAGES LANDSAT 7 ETM+
The monitoring of the variation in glacier areas is increasingly important with the apparent trend of global warming. One of the major ice sheets on the planet, the main glaciers of Southern Patagonia Icefield were mapped using a set of images obtained in 1973, 1976, 1979, 1986, 2005 and 2009 by the...
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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Copernicus Publications
2012-07-01
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Series: | The International Archives of the Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing and Spatial Information Sciences |
Online Access: | http://www.int-arch-photogramm-remote-sens-spatial-inf-sci.net/XXXIX-B8/567/2012/isprsarchives-XXXIX-B8-567-2012.pdf |