Time-space continuity of daily maps of fractional snow cover and albedo from MODIS

Advances in Water Resources

Volumn 31, Issue 11, 2008, Pages 1515-1526

  Dozier, Jeff ^a   Painter, Thomas H ^b   Rittger, Karl ^a   Frew, James E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF UTAH   (United States)

Author keywords

Albedo; MODIS; Remote sensing; Snow

Indexed keywords

CONFORMAL MAPPING; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVES; INTERPOLATION; OPTICAL PROJECTORS; REFLECTION; REMOTE SENSING; SENSOR NETWORKS; SOLAR RADIATION; SPACE OPTICS; SPECTROMETERS; TIME SERIES ANALYSIS;

ALBEDO; BEST ESTIMATES; CLOUD COVERS; CLOUD PRODUCTS; DATA GAPS; FILTERING; FRACTIONAL; MODIS; REFLECTANCE VALUES; RETRIEVAL ALGORITHMS; SMOOTHING; SNOW COVERS; SNOW PROPERTIES; TIME SERIES;

PRECIPITATION (METEOROLOGY);

ALBEDO; ALGORITHM; ERROR ANALYSIS; ESTIMATION METHOD; GEOMETRY; IMAGE ANALYSIS; INTERPOLATION; MODIS; PIXEL; SMOOTHING; SNOW COVER; TIME SERIES ANALYSIS;

EID: 54949107294     PISSN: 03091708     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.advwatres.2008.08.011     Document Type: Article

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