Feasibility of satellite Ku-band scatterometer data for retrieval of seasonal snow characteristics in Finland

International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium (IGARSS)

Volumn 3, Issue , 2005, Pages 1936-1939

  Hallikainen, Martti ^a   Lahtinen, Panu ^a   Zhang, Yuanzhi ^a   Takala, Matias ^a   Pulliainen, Jouni ^a  

^a AALTO UNIVERSITY   (Finland)

Author keywords

Scatterometer; Snow; Snow water equivalent; Snow covered area; Snowmelt

Indexed keywords

DATA REDUCTION; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE SCATTERING; NEURAL NETWORKS; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; SNOW;

GROUND-BASED MEASUREMENTS; SEASONAL SNOW CHARACTERISTICS; SEASONAL SNOW PARAMETERS; SNOW WATER EQUIVALENT;

SATELLITES;

EID: 33745713281     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/IGARSS.2005.1526389     Document Type: Conference Paper

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