Comparison of snow water equivalent retrieved from SSM/I passive microwave data using artificial neural network, projection pursuit and nonlinear regressions

Remote Sensing of Environment

Volumn 113, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 919-927

  Gan, Thian Yew ^a   Kalinga, Oscar ^b   Singh, Purushottam ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

^b GOLDER ASSOCIATES LTD   (Canada)

Author keywords

Artificial neural network; Brightness temperature; Snow water equivalent; SSM I passive microwave data; Statistical regression models

Indexed keywords

ARTIFICIAL NEURAL NETWORK; BRIGHTNESS TEMPERATURE; SNOW WATER EQUIVALENT; SSM/I PASSIVE MICROWAVE DATA; STATISTICAL REGRESSION MODELS;

BACKPROPAGATION; CALIBRATION; GAMMA RAYS; MICROWAVES; PARALLEL PROCESSING SYSTEMS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SENSOR NETWORKS; SENSORS; SNOW; SNOW MELTING SYSTEMS; TEMPERATURE;

NEURAL NETWORKS;

ARTIFICIAL NEURAL NETWORK; BRIGHTNESS TEMPERATURE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; GAMMA RAY SPECTROMETRY; MODEL VALIDATION; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PARALLEL COMPUTING; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RIVER BASIN; SNOW WATER EQUIVALENT; SSM-I; WATER DEPTH;

NORTH AMERICA; RED BASIN [UNITED STATES]; UNITED STATES;

EID: 63649108606     PISSN: 00344257     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.rse.2009.01.004     Document Type: Article

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