supported by the National Basic Research Program of China (No. 2007CB411501);the Knowledge Innovation Project of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (No. KZCX2-EW-311);the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Nos. 91025012, J0930003/J0109);the Project for Outstanding Young Scientists of the National Natural Science Foundation of China (No. 40121101)
To evaluate the water storage and project the future evolution of glaciers, the ice-thickness of glaciers is an essential input. However, direct measurements of ice thickness are labo- rious, not feasible everywhere, ...
supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (40601056 and 40121101);the Special Science Foundation on Meteorological Project Research for Public Benefit (GYHY(QX)2007-6-18);the Opening Fund Projects of State Key Laboratory of Remote Sensing Science in the Institute of Remote Sensing Applications, the Innovative Project of Institute of Tibetan Plateau Research (ITPR), CAS and through a cooperation project between the Climate Change Institute, University of Maine supported by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NA04OAR4600179) and the Institute of Tibatan Plateau Research(ITPR),CAS
This paper describes a multi-temporal grid method for quantifying changes in glacier coverage. A multi-temporal grid synthesizes spatial, attribute and process components of glacier information by sequentially combini...
supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (40601056, 40121101);the Special Funds for Major State Basic Research Project (2009CB723901);the Special Science Foundation on Meteorological Project Research for Public Benefit (GYHY(QX)2007-6-18);the Survey Project on Glacier resources and their changes in China (No.2006FY110200);the Opening Fund projects of State Key Laboratory of Remote Sensing Science in the Institute of Remote Sensing Applications;the innovative project of Institute of Tibetan Plateau Research (ITPR),CAS;through a cooperation project between the Climate Change Institute, University of Maine supported by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NA04OAR4600179) and the Institute of Tibetan Plateau Research (ITPR), CAS
Because of the large number and remoteness, satellite data, including microwave data and optical imagery, have commonly been used in alpine glaciers surveys. Using remote sensing and Geographical Information System (...