Validation of operational AVHRR subpixel snow retrievals over the European Alps based on ASTER data

International Journal of Remote Sensing

Volumn 28, Issue 21, 2007, Pages 4841-4865

  Foppa, N ^a,b,c   Hauser, A ^d   Oesch, D ^e   Wunderle, S ^b   Meister, R ^c  

^a FEDERAL OFFICE OF METEOROLOGY AND CLIMATOLOGY METEOSWISS   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

^c WSL INSTITUTE FOR SNOW AND AVALANCHE RESEARCH SLF   (Switzerland)

^d iTECH Engineering AG   (Switzerland)

^e SYNGENTA CROP PROTECTION AG   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADVANCED VERY HIGH RESOLUTION RADIOMETERS (AVHRR); CORRELATION METHODS; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; PIXELS; REMOTE SENSING;

ALPINE SNOW; SNOW COVER; SNOW RETRIEVALS; SUBPIXEL;

SNOW;

ASTER; AVHRR; CLIMATE CHANGE; DATA SET; IMAGE ANALYSIS; MOUNTAIN REGION; NOAA SATELLITE; PIXEL; REGIONAL CLIMATE; SATELLITE DATA; SNOW COVER; SNOWMELT;

ALPS; EURASIA; EUROPE;

EID: 41249088881     PISSN: 01431161     EISSN: 13665901     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/01431160701253287     Document Type: Article

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