Automated mapping of montane snow cover at subpixel resolution from the Landsat Thematic Mapper

Water Resources Research

Volumn 32, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 115-130

  Rosenthal, Walter ^a   Dozier, Jeff ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AERIAL PHOTOGRAPHY; MONTANE SNOW COVER; SNOW COVER; TM;

USA, SIERRA NEVADA;

EID: 0029667341     PISSN: 00431397     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/95WR02718     Document Type: Article

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