Improved estimates of the areal extent of snow cover from AVHRR data

Journal of Hydrology

Volumn 204, Issue 1-4, 1998, Pages 1-23

  Simpson, J J ^a   Stitt, J R ^a   Sienko, M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Remote sensing; Snow cover; Snow hydrology; Snow water equivalents

Indexed keywords

ADVANCED VERY HIGH RESOLUTION RADIOMETRY (AVHRR); HYDROMETEOROLOGY; LINEAR MIXING MODEL; SNOW COVER;

CLOUDS; HYDROLOGY; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; METEOROLOGY; RADIOMETRY; REMOTE SENSING; SATELLITES; TELEMETERING;

SNOW;

AVHRR; SNOW COVER;

EID: 0032579574     PISSN: 00221694     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0022-1694(97)00087-5     Document Type: Article

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