Improving snow cover mapping in forests through the use of a canopy reflectance model

Hydrological Processes

Volumn 12, Issue 10-11, 1998, Pages 1723-1744

  Klein, Andrew G ^a,b   Hall, Dorothy K ^b   Riggs, George A ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITIES SPACE RESEARCH ASSOCIATION   (United States)

^b NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

^c Res and Data Systems Corporation   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; MAPPING; REMOTE SENSING; SNOW; TIME SERIES ANALYSIS; VEGETATION;

CANOPY REFLECTANCE MODEL; NORMALIZED DIFFERENCE SNOW INDEX; NORMALIZED DIFFERENCE VEGETATION INDEX; SNOW-COVER MAPPING ALGORITHM;

HYDROLOGY;

ALGORITHM; FOREST CANOPY; REMOTE SENSING; SNOW COVER;

EID: 0032147736     PISSN: 08856087     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1099-1085(199808/09)12:10/11<1723::AID-HYP691>3.0.CO;2-2     Document Type: Article

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