Inversion of a snow emission model calibrated with in situ data for snow water equivalent monitoring

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 48, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 59-71

  Vachon, François ^a,b   Goïta, Kalifa ^a   De Sève, Danielle ^b   Royer, Alain ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE SHERBROOKE   (Canada)

^b HYDRO QUÉBEC   (Canada)

Author keywords

Model calibration; Passive microwave; Remote sensing; Snow emission model; Snow water equivalent (SWE)

Indexed keywords

EMISSION MODEL; MODEL CALIBRATION; PASSIVE MICROWAVE; PASSIVE MICROWAVE REMOTE SENSING; SNOW WATER EQUIVALENT;

CALIBRATION; GRAIN SIZE AND SHAPE; MICROWAVES; MONITORING; OPTIMIZATION; REMOTE SENSING; SNOW MELTING SYSTEMS;

SNOW;

BRIGHTNESS TEMPERATURE; CALIBRATION; DATA ASSIMILATION; FOREST FLOOR; GRAIN SIZE; NORTHERN HEMISPHERE; OPTIMIZATION; POWER GENERATION; REMOTE SENSING; RUNOFF; SNOW WATER EQUIVALENT; SNOWPACK; TEMPORAL ANALYSIS;

CANADA; QUEBEC [CANADA];

EID: 73349141114     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TGRS.2009.2026892     Document Type: Article

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