Accuracy assessment of SAR data-based snow-covered area estimation method

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 44, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 277-286

  Luojus, Kari P ^a,b   Pulliainen, Jouni T ^a,b,d,e   Metsåmäki, Sari J ^a,c   Hallikainen, Martti T ^{a,b,d,f,g,h,i,j,k,l}  

^a IEEE   (Finland)

^b AALTO UNIVERSITY   (Finland)

^c FINNISH ENVIRONMENT INSTITUTE   (Finland)

^d TKK ^*  (Finland)

^e EARSeL Interest Group on Forestry   (Finland)

^f EARSeL Council   (Finland)

^g ESA SMOS Scientific Advisory Group   (Finland)

^h Scientific and Technical Advisory Group (DOSTAG)   (Finland)

ⁱ JOINT RESEARCH CENTRE   (Italy)

^j TGARS ^*  (Finland)

^k URSI Finnish National Committee   (Finland)

^l Finnish National Committee of COSPAR   (Finland)

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Author keywords

Hydrological forecasting; Snow monitoring; Snow covered area (SCA); Spaceborne synthetic aperture radar (SAR)

Indexed keywords

HYDROLOGICAL FORECASTING; SNOW MONITORING; SNOW-COVERED AREA (SCA); SPACEBORNE SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR (SAR);

METHOD OF MOMENTS; RADAR; SATELLITES; SNOW; STATISTICAL METHODS; WEATHER FORECASTING;

REMOTE SENSING;

EID: 31344451330     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TGRS.2005.861414     Document Type: Article

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