A prototype AMSR-E global snow area and snow depth algorithm

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 41, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 230-242

  Kelly, Richard E ^a   Chang, Alfred T ^b   Tsang, Leung ^c   Foster, James L ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND BALTIMORE COUNTY   (United States)

^b NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

^c University of Washington   (United States)

Author keywords

Dense media radiative transfer model; Microwave radiometry; Remote sensing; Snow depth

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; EARTH (PLANET); METEOROLOGY; MICROWAVE DEVICES; RADIOMETERS; SNOW;

DIGITAL ELEVATION MODELS;

REMOTE SENSING;

EID: 0037936854     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TGRS.2003.809118     Document Type: Article

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