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Changes in the Mrdalsjkull ice cap, south Iceland: possible uses of satellite imagery

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  27 October 2009

Extract

The Mrdalsjkull ice cap, in southern Iceland, was visited in July and August 1975 by a party of seven, operating from a base camp on its western side, at the head of the Prsmrk valley. The objectives of the expedition were to record evidence of changes in the extent of the ice cap since its last re-advance (about 1850?) with a view to correlation with climatic data, and to examine the role of imagery from the Earth Resources Technology Satellite-1 (ERTS-1) in this context.

Type
Field Work
Copyright
Copyright Cambridge University Press 1976

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