A comparison of 18 winter seasons of in situ and passive microwave-derived snow water equivalent estimates in Western Canada

Remote Sensing of Environment

Volumn 88, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 271-282

  Derksen, C ^a   Walker, A ^a   Goodison, B ^a  

^a ENVIRONMENT CANADA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Passive microwave; SMMR; Snow water equivalent; SSM I

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; DATA REDUCTION; FORESTRY; IMAGE SENSORS; RADIOMETERS; VEGETATION;

FOREST COVER; SCANNING MULTICHANNEL MICROWAVE RADIOMETER (SMMR);

SNOW;

ALGORITHM; IMAGE PROCESSING; MICROWAVE RADIOMETER; REMOTE SENSING; SNOW WATER EQUIVALENT; SSM-I;

CANADA; NORTH AMERICA;

EID: 0842306349     PISSN: 00344257     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.rse.2003.07.003     Document Type: Article

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