On the Relationship Between Temperature and MODIS Snow Cover Retrieval Errors in the Western U.S.

IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and Remote Sensing

Volumn 3, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 132-140

  Dong, Jiarui ^a   Peters Lidard, Christa ^b  

^a CLIMATE PREDICTION CENTER   (United States)

^b NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Errors; Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS); snow cover area; temperature

Indexed keywords

AIR TEMPERATURE; CLOUD CONTAMINATION; DATA SETS; DOUBLE EXPONENTIAL DISTRIBUTION; ERROR STRUCTURES; IN-SITU; JOINT ANALYSIS; LAND SURFACE TEMPERATURE; MEAN AIR TEMPERATURES; MODERATE RESOLUTION IMAGING SPECTRORADIOMETER; RETRIEVAL ERRORS; SNOW COVER AREA; SNOW COVERED AREA; SNOW COVERS; SNOW PACKS; SNOW WATER EQUIVALENT; SNOW-COVER PRODUCTS; SPATIAL AND TEMPORAL VARIATION; STUDY AREAS; VEGETATION COVER; WESTERN UNITED STATES;

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; ATMOSPHERICS; DISTRIBUTION FUNCTIONS; ERRORS; EXPONENTIAL FUNCTIONS; IMAGE RETRIEVAL; REMOTE SENSING; SATELLITE IMAGERY; SNOW; SPACE TIME ADAPTIVE PROCESSING; SPECTROMETERS; WATER ANALYSIS;

RADIOMETERS;

ACCURACY ASSESSMENT; DATA ACQUISITION; DETECTION METHOD; ERROR ANALYSIS; LAND SURFACE; MODIS; REMOTE SENSING; SATELLITE DATA; SNOW COVER; SNOWPACK; SPATIAL VARIATION; TEMPERATURE EFFECT; VEGETATION COVER;

CALIFORNIA; COLORADO; NEVADA; UNITED STATES;

EID: 77649176940     PISSN: 19391404     EISSN: 21511535     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JSTARS.2009.2039698     Document Type: Article

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