Retrieval of subpixel snow-covered area and grain size from imaging spectrometer data

Remote Sensing of Environment

Volumn 85, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 64-77

  Painter, Thomas H ^a,d   Dozier, Jeff ^a   Roberts, Dar A ^a   Davis, Robert E ^b   Green, Robert O ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b Engineering Research and Development Center   (United States)

^c CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

Author keywords

Albedo; AVIRIS; Imaging spectrometry; Mapping; Snow

Indexed keywords

DATA REDUCTION; GRAIN SIZE AND SHAPE; IMAGING TECHNIQUES; ROCKS; SNOW; SOILS; SPECTROMETERS; VEGETATION;

IMAGING SPECTROMETER DATA;

REMOTE SENSING;

AERIAL PHOTOGRAPH; AVIRIS; GRAIN SIZE; MAPPING; RADIATIVE TRANSFER; SNOW COVER; SPECTRAL REFLECTANCE;

CALIFORNIA; MAMMOTH MOUNTAIN; UNITED STATES;

EID: 0037466348     PISSN: 00344257     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0034-4257(02)00187-6     Document Type: Article

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