Global snow cover monitoring with spaceborne Ku-band scatterometer

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 39, Issue 10, 2001, Pages 2118-2134

  Nghiem, S V ^a   Tsai, W Y ^a  

^a CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Flood; Ku band scatterometer; NSCAT; Snow; Snowmelt

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; DATA ACQUISITION; DATA REDUCTION; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE SCATTERING; FLOODS; SNOW MELTING SYSTEMS; WEATHER SATELLITES;

SNOW COVER; WEATHER STATIONS;

SNOWFALL MEASUREMENT;

EID: 0035481692     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/36.957275     Document Type: Article

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