Development of a technique to assess snow-cover mapping errors from space

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 39, Issue 2, 2001, Pages 432-438

  Hall, Dorothy K ^b   Foster, James L ^b   Salomonson, Vincent V ^a,b   Klein, Andrew G ^c   Chien, J Y L ^d  

^a IEEE

^b NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

^c TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d GENERAL SCIENCES CORPORATION   (United States)

Author keywords

Moderate resolution imaging spectroradiometer (MODIS); Satellites; Snow cover; Snow mapping

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; ERROR ANALYSIS; ESTIMATION; FORESTRY; IMAGE QUALITY; IMAGING TECHNIQUES; MAPPING; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; SATELLITES; SNOW;

MODERATE RESOLUTION IMAGING SPECTRORADIOMETER; SNOW COVER; SNOW MAPPING;

RADIOMETRY;

EID: 0035248278     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/36.905251     Document Type: Article

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