Determination of the equilibrium line on an alpine glacier using remote sensing data fusion techniques

Author

Schaper, Jesko ; Rehrauer, Hubert ; Seidel, Klaus

Author_Institution

Fed. Inst. of Technol., Zurich, Switzerland

Volume

4

fYear

1998

fDate

6-10 Jul 1998

Firstpage

1855

Abstract

High resolution remote sensing satellite data serve as a source for equilibrium line (EL) analysis on top of glaciers. Data fusion techniques are used in order to take advantage from both the multispectral and panchromatic information available from simultaneously acquired IRS-LISS and -PAN recordings. As a result of segmentation between snow and ice the EL is derived based on multispectral classification of the fused data

Keywords

geophysical signal processing; glaciology; hydrological techniques; image classification; image segmentation; remote sensing; sensor fusion; alpine glacier; data fusion; equilibrium line; glaciology; hydrology; image classification; image fusion; image processing; image segmentation; measurement technique; multispectral remote sensing; optical imaging; panchromatic data; remote sensing; Ice; Image resolution; Image segmentation; Multispectral imaging; Remote sensing; Satellites; Signal resolution; Snow; Spatial resolution; Wavelet transforms;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium Proceedings, 1998. IGARSS '98. 1998 IEEE International

Conference_Location

Seattle, WA

Print_ISBN

0-7803-4403-0

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/IGARSS.1998.703674

Filename

703674