Toward advanced daily cloud-free snow cover and snow water equivalent products from Terra-Aqua MODIS and Aqua AMSR-E measurements

Journal of Hydrology

Volumn 385, Issue 1-4, 2010, Pages 23-35

  Gao, Yang ^a,b,c   Xie, Hongjie ^b   Lu, Ning ^b,d   Yao, Tandong ^c   Liang, Tiangang ^e  

^a CHINA UNIVERSITY OF GEOSCIENCES   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT SAN ANTONIO   (United States)

^c INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

^d INSTITUTE OF GEOGRAPHIC SCIENCES AND NATURAL RESOURCES RESEARCH   (China)

^e LANZHOU UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Cloud free; New daily products; Snow cover; Snow water equivalent

Indexed keywords

ADVANCED MICROWAVE SCANNING RADIOMETER; AQUA MODIS; CLASSIFICATION ACCURACY; CLOUD COVER; EARTH OBSERVING SYSTEMS; HIGH SPATIAL RESOLUTION; HYDROLOGICAL YEARS; LANDSAT; MODERATE RESOLUTION IMAGING SPECTRORADIOMETER; NEW PRODUCT; OPTICAL DATA; PASSIVE MICROWAVE DATA; PASSIVE MICROWAVE SENSORS; SNOW COVER; SNOW COVERS; SNOW WATER EQUIVALENT; SNOW-COVER PRODUCTS; SPATIAL RESOLUTION; SUB-PIXEL ANALYSIS; WEATHER CONDITIONS;

IMAGE RESOLUTION; MICROWAVE SENSORS; MICROWAVES; NASA; PIXELS; RADIOMETERS; SATELLITE IMAGERY; SNOW MELTING SYSTEMS; SPECTROMETERS;

SNOW;

ACCURACY ASSESSMENT; AVHRR; CLOUD COVER; EOS; MICROWAVE RADIOMETER; MODIS; SNOW COVER; SNOW WATER EQUIVALENT; SPATIAL RESOLUTION;

ALASKA; UNITED STATES;

EID: 77950867523     PISSN: 00221694     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jhydrol.2010.01.022     Document Type: Article

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