Monitoring of seasonal glacier mass balance over the European Alps using low-resolution optical satellite images

We explore a new method to retrieve seasonal glacier mass balances (MBs) from low-resolution optical remote sensing. We derive annual winter and summer snow maps of the Alps during 1998–2014 using SPOT/VEGETATION 1 km resolution imagery. We combine these seasonal snow maps with a DEM to calculate a...

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Main Authors: VANESSA DROLON, PHILIPPE MAISONGRANDE, ETIENNE BERTHIER, ELSE SWINNEN, MATTHIAS HUSS
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Cambridge University Press 2016-10-01
Series:Journal of Glaciology
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Online Access:https://www.cambridge.org/core/product/identifier/S0022143016000782/type/journal_article