Subpixel monitoring of the seasonal snow cover with MODIS at 250 m spatial resolution in the Southern Alps of New Zealand: Methodology and accuracy assessment

Remote Sensing of Environment

Volumn 113, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 160-181

  Sirguey, Pascal ^a   Mathieu, Renaud ^a,b   Arnaud, Yves ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OTAGO   (New Zealand)

^b DSI CSIR Nanotechnology Innovation Centre   (South Africa)

^c LABORATOIRE DE GLACIOLOGIE ET GÉOPHYSIQUE DE L ENVIRONNEMENT   (France)

Author keywords

Image fusion; MODIS; Mountainous terrain; Snow; Spectral unmixing; Subpixel snow fraction

Indexed keywords

AGGLOMERATION; ATMOSPHERICS; CONFORMAL MAPPING; DATA FUSION; FUSION REACTIONS; HYDRAULIC MODELS; IMAGE FUSION; MAPS; OPTICAL PROJECTORS; SPECTROMETERS; WATER MANAGEMENT; WATER RESOURCES;

ACCURACY ASSESSMENTS; ATMOSPHERIC PARAMETERS; COMPREHENSIVE METHODS; END-MEMBERS; FUSION ALGORITHMS; ITERATIVE APPROACHES; LINEAR UNMIXING; MEAN ABSOLUTE ERRORS; MODERATE RESOLUTION IMAGING SPECTRO RADIOMETERS; MODIS; MODIS/ASTER; MOUNTAINOUS TERRAIN; NEW ZEALAND; REGIONAL MAPS; ROBUST ESTIMATIONS; SEASONAL SNOW COVERS; SNOWMELT RUNOFFS; SPATIAL RESOLUTION.; SPATIAL RESOLUTIONS; SPECTRAL REFLECTANCES; SPECTRAL UNMIXING; SUB PIXELS; SUBPIXEL SNOW FRACTION; TOPOGRAPHIC EFFECTS;

PRECIPITATION (METEOROLOGY);

ACCURACY ASSESSMENT; ALGORITHM; ALPINE ENVIRONMENT; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; MAPPING METHOD; MODIS; PIXEL; SNOW COVER; SPATIAL RESOLUTION;

AUSTRALASIA; NEW ZEALAND; SOUTH ISLAND; SOUTHERN ALPS;

EID: 56949097859     PISSN: 00344257     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.rse.2008.09.008     Document Type: Article

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