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Remote Sensing of Glaciers - Techniques for Topographic, Spatial and Thematic Mapping of Glaciers (Paperback)
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Remote Sensing of Glaciers - Techniques for Topographic, Spatial and Thematic Mapping of Glaciers (Paperback)
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Glaciers and ice sheets have been melting significantly during
recent decades, posing environmental threats at local, regional and
global scales. Changes in glaciers are one of the clearest
indicators of alterations in regional climate, since they are
governed by changes in accumulation (from snowfall) and ablation
(by melting of ice). Glacier changes have been measured for the
last century by traditional field measurements, resulting in long
time series for a few glaciers. Remote sensing data and methods,
and geographic information systems, provide the means to allow
glacier changes to be monitored at a global scale, to be analysed
rapidly and to store the results and present information to both
scientific and popular audiences in a way which was not possible
before the digital revolution. Remote sensing of glaciers began
with terrestrial and aerial photography during the middle of the
20th century, but today the discipline embraces a large variety of
data types from laser scanner data to very high resolution
satellite imagery, which can be applied to the mapping of glacier
changes in terms of area, surface zonation or thickness. This book
highlights the history of the remote sensing of glaciers, the
physics of glaciers and remote sensing of them, and focuses
particularly on modern data and methods used by remote sensing
specialists and glaciologists. The book presents examples of
glacier research carried out, for example in the Alps, Norway,
Iceland, Caucasus, Patagonia, Rocky Mountains, Pakistan,
Antarctica, New Zealand, and Svalbard. This book is of interest to
specialists and students working in the field of remote sensing,
glaciology, physical geography, geology and climate change.
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