Monitoring of snow-cover properties during the spring melting period in forested areas

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 48, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 50-58

  Koskinen, Jarkko T ^a   Pulliainen, Jouni T ^a   Luojus, Kari P ^a   Takala, Matias ^a  

^a FINNISH METEOROLOGICAL INSTITUTE   (Finland)

Author keywords

Forest; Snow monitoring; Snow covered area (SCA); Synthetic aperture radar (SAR)

Indexed keywords

BACKSCATTERING MODELS; C-BAND BACKSCATTERING; C-BAND SAR DATA; ESTIMATION RESULTS; FINLAND; FOREST; FOREST COVER; FOREST SNOW; FORESTED AREA; FORESTED LANDSCAPES; HELSINKI UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY; IN-SITU OBSERVATIONS; MULTI-TEMPORAL; SEMI-EMPIRICAL; SNOW COVERED AREA; SNOW COVERS; SNOW MELT; SNOW WETNESS; SNOW-COVERED AREA (SCA); SPACE-BORNE; STEM VOLUME; TEMPERATURE OBSERVATIONS; TEMPORAL CHANGE; TEST REGIONS; TRUTH DATA; WEATHER STATIONS;

BACKSCATTERING; IMAGE CLASSIFICATION; IMAGING SYSTEMS; RADAR; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR; SYNTHETIC APERTURES;

SNOW;

BACKSCATTER; FOREST COVER; LANDSCAPE STRUCTURE; MELTING; NUMERICAL MODEL; PERFORMANCE ASSESSMENT; SNOW COVER; STEM; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR; WEATHER STATION;

EID: 73249129682     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TGRS.2009.2024755     Document Type: Article

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