Enhanced SAR-based snow-covered area estimation method for boreal forest zone

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 47, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 922-935

  Luojus, Kari P ^a   Pulliainen, Jouni T ^a   Metsämäki, Sari J ^b   Hallikainen, Martti T ^c  

^a FINNISH METEOROLOGICAL INSTITUTE   (Finland)

^b FINNISH ENVIRONMENT INSTITUTE   (Finland)

^c AALTO UNIVERSITY   (Finland)

Author keywords

Hydrological forecasting; Snow monitoring; Snow covered area (SCA); Wide swath synthetic aperture radar (SAR)

Indexed keywords

CATCHMENTS; ESTIMATION; IMAGE CLASSIFICATION; IMAGING SYSTEMS; OPTICAL CORRELATION; PHOTOACOUSTIC EFFECT; RADAR; RADAR ANTENNAS; SNOW; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR; WEATHER INFORMATION SERVICES;

ADAPTIVITY; BOREAL FOREST ZONES; ESTIMATION METHODS; FINNISH; GROUND-BASED; HELSINKI UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGIES; HYDROLOGICAL FORECASTING; NEW APPROACHES; OPTICAL SATELLITES; RADARSAT; REFERENCE IMAGES; ROOT-MEAN-SQUARE ERRORS; SNOW-COVERED AREA (SCA); SNOW-MELT SEASONS; SPACEBORNE SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADARS; SPATIAL RESOLUTIONS; SWATH DATUM; THIRD ORDERS; WEATHER STATIONS; WIDE-SWATH SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR (SAR);

SYNTHETIC APERTURES;

BOREAL FOREST; CORRELATION; DRAINAGE; IMAGERY; SATELLITE; SNOW; SNOW COVER; SNOWMELT; SPATIAL RESOLUTION; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR; WEATHER STATION;

EID: 61349190303     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TGRS.2008.2006047     Document Type: Article

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