Development and evaluation of a cloud-gap-filled MODIS daily snow-cover product

Remote Sensing of Environment

Volumn 114, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 496-503

  Hall, Dorothy K ^a   Riggs, George A ^a   Foster, James L ^a   Kumar, Sujay V ^a  

^a NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Data assimilation; LIS; MODIS; Snow cover; SWE

Indexed keywords

CLOUD COVER; DATA ASSIMILATION; GAP FILLING; GRID CELLS; LAND INFORMATION SYSTEMS; LAND SURFACE MODELS; MODERATE RESOLUTION IMAGING SPECTRORADIOMETER; SIMPLE ALGORITHM; SNOW COVERS; SNOW DEPTHS; SNOW-COVER PRODUCTS; STANDARD PRODUCTS; WATER EQUIVALENT;

ARCTIC ENGINEERING; ATMOSPHERICS; DATA PROCESSING; FEATURE EXTRACTION; NASA; RADIOMETERS; SATELLITE IMAGERY; SPECTROMETERS;

SNOW;

CLIMATE MODELING; DATA ASSIMILATION; ERROR ANALYSIS; LAND INFORMATION SYSTEM; MODIS; SNOW COVER; WEATHER FORECASTING;

EID: 74149091611     PISSN: 00344257     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.rse.2009.10.007     Document Type: Article

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