Estimation of snow water equivalent from passive microwave remote sensing data (SSM/I) in Tibetan Plateau

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 4894, Issue , 2003, Pages 405-412

  Che, Tao ^a   Li, Xin ^a   Armstrong, Richard L ^b  

^a Chinese Academy of Sciences   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

Author keywords

Passive microwave; Remote sensing; Snow water equivalent; SSM I data; Tibetan plateau

Indexed keywords

LUMINANCE; MICROWAVES; POLARIZATION; SNOW; SNOW MELTING SYSTEMS; SNOWFALL MEASUREMENT; TEMPERATURE;

BRIGHTNESS TEMPERATURES; HORIZONTAL POLARIZATION; PASSIVE MICROWAVE BRIGHTNESS TEMPERATURES; PASSIVE MICROWAVE REMOTE SENSING; PASSIVE MICROWAVES; SNOW WATER EQUIVALENT; SSM/I DATA; TIBETAN PLATEAU;

REMOTE SENSING;

EID: 15944421020     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: 1996756X     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.467411     Document Type: Conference Paper

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