Northern hemisphere snow-covered area mapping: Optical versus active and passive microwave data

IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Letters

Volumn 4, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 221-225

  Tedesco, M ^a,b   Miller, J ^a,c  

^a NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND BALTIMORE COUNTY   (United States)

^c SCIENCE SYSTEMS AND APPLICATIONS INC   (United States)

Author keywords

Hydrology; Remote sensing; Snow

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; MAPPING; MICROWAVE DEVICES; RADIOMETERS; SENSOR DATA FUSION; SNOW; SPACE APPLICATIONS;

MICROWAVE DATA; MICROWAVE INSTRUMENTS; NORTHERN HEMISPHERE; SPECIAL SENSOR MICROWAVE IMAGER RADIOMETER;

HYDROLOGY;

EID: 34247340113     PISSN: 1545598X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/LGRS.2006.888842     Document Type: Article

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