Monitoring of seasonal snowmelt on Greenland with ERS scatterometer data

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 38, Issue 4 II, 2000, Pages 1821-1826

  Wismann, Volkmar ^a,b  

^a IEEE   (Germany)

^b Institute for Applied Remote Sensing (IFARS)   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EUROPEAN REMOTE SENSING; SCATTEROMETRY;

CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATOLOGY; MELTING; MONITORING; RADAR MEASUREMENT; SATELLITES; SCATTERING; SNOW;

REMOTE SENSING;

EID: 0034224591     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/36.851766     Document Type: Article

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