Remote sensing based retrieval of snow cover properties

Cold Regions Science and Technology

Volumn 54, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 164-175

  Schaffhauser, A ^a   Adams, M ^a   Fromm, R ^a   Jorg P ^a   Luzi, G ^b   Noferini, L ^b   Sailer, R ^a  

^a FEDERAL RESEARCH AND TRAINING CENTRE FOR FORESTS   (Austria)

^b UNIVERSITY OF FLORENCE   (Italy)

Author keywords

Ground based synthetic aperture radar; Remote sensing; Snow depth; Snow water equivalent; Terrestrial laser scanner

Indexed keywords

AVALANCHES (SNOWSLIDES); GEODETIC SATELLITES; IMAGE CLASSIFICATION; IMAGING SYSTEMS; LASER APPLICATIONS; OFFSHORE OIL WELL PRODUCTION; PHOTOACOUSTIC EFFECT; RADAR; RADAR ANTENNAS; REMOTE SENSING; SCANNING; SNOW; SNOW MELTING SYSTEMS; SPACE OPTICS; SURVEYING INSTRUMENTS; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR; SYNTHETIC APERTURES; TARGET DRONES;

AS MODELS; FIELD WORKS; GROUND BASED; GROUND BASED SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR; INTERFEROMETRIC SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADARS; KEY PARAMETERS; MODELLING; OBSERVATION METHODS; REMOTE MONITORING; SNOW AVALANCHES; SNOW COVERS; SNOW DEPTH; SNOW DEPTH DISTRIBUTIONS; SNOW DEPTHS; SNOW DRIFTS; SNOW WATER EQUIVALENT; SNOW WATER EQUIVALENTS; TERRESTRIAL LASER SCANNER; TERRESTRIAL LASER SCANNING;

PRECIPITATION (METEOROLOGY);

AVALANCHE; GROUND-BASED MEASUREMENT; INTERFEROMETRY; LASER METHOD; REMOTE SENSING; SNOW COVER; SNOW WATER EQUIVALENT; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR;

EID: 54349086020     PISSN: 0165232X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.coldregions.2008.07.007     Document Type: Article

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