Retrieval of subpixel snow covered area, grain size, and albedo from MODIS

Remote Sensing of Environment

Volumn 113, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 868-879

  Painter, Thomas H ^a   Rittger, Karl ^b   McKenzie, Ceretha ^c   Slaughter, Peter ^b   Davis, Robert E ^c   Dozier, Jeff ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF UTAH   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c Engineering Research and Development Center   (United States)

Author keywords

Albedo; Grain size; MODIS; Snow; Spectral mixture analysis

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERICS; FORESTRY; GEOLOGIC MODELS; GRAIN SIZE AND SHAPE; LANDFORMS; MIXTURES; NASA; RADIATIVE TRANSFER; REFLECTION; SOIL STRUCTURE INTERACTIONS; SOILS; SOLAR RADIATION; SPECTROMETERS; VEGETATION;

ALBEDO; COLD LAND PROCESSES EXPERIMENTS; COMPUTATIONALLY EFFICIENT; END-MEMBERS; ENDMEMBER; FIELD MEASUREMENTS; GRAIN SIZE; GRAIN SIZE MEASUREMENTS; HIMALAYA; ILLUMINATION GEOMETRIES; IN-SITU MEASUREMENTS; LANDSAT THEMATIC MAPPERS; MEAN ABSOLUTE ERRORS; MODERATE-RESOLUTION IMAGING SPECTRORADIOMETER; MODIS; NEAR INFRA REDS; OPERATIONAL MODES; PHYSICALLY BASED; RADIATIVE TRANSFER MODELS; RMS ERRORS; ROCKY MOUNTAINS; SAN JUAN MOUNTAINS; SHORT-WAVE INFRARED; SIERRA NEVADA; SNOW COVER MAPPINGS; SNOW COVERS; SNOW-COVERED AREAS; SOLAR ZENITH ANGLES; SPATIAL AND TEMPORAL VARIATIONS; SPECTRAL MIXTURE ANALYSIS; SPECTRAL MIXTURES; SUB PIXELS; SURFACE REFLECTANCES; WEIGHTED AVERAGES;

SNOW;

ALBEDO; GRAIN SIZE; MEASUREMENT METHOD; MODEL VALIDATION; MODIS; PIXEL; SNOW COVER; SPECTRAL ANALYSIS; ZENITH ANGLE;

ASIA; CALIFORNIA; COLORADO; EURASIA; HIMALAYAS; NORTH AMERICA; ROCKY MOUNTAINS; SIERRA NEVADA [CALIFORNIA]; UNITED STATES;

EID: 60749129892     PISSN: 00344257     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.rse.2009.01.001     Document Type: Article

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